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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Phil Emasali" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <phil.emasali@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:27:06 -0000
Subject: Transaction details

Dear Prospective Partner,

I have a proposal the sum of US$18.5m dollars (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in an accident

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking gildings but unfortunately he lost his entire family in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody will come for it and we don't want this funds called back to treasury as unclaimed bill.

Our banking laws and guideline stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after 10 years, the money will be called back to treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and will not want to use a local to make this claim

I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as stipulated, you must apply first to the bank as the next of kin of the deceased through the solicitors I have already put in place to oversee this claim.

Upon the positive receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the draft of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter



Yours Faithfully,

Phil Emasali


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