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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: "Mr. Hemou Deddouh" <hemoudeddoh1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hemoudeddouh1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:13:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Hemou Deddouh



Good Day,



I will like to reach you through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with you in your Country under your kind control. I have the intention to invest money into a very lucrative business venture in your Country, which you are to advise and execute the said venture over there for the mutual benefits of both of us.



Your able co-operation to become my business partner in your country and create ideas on how money will be invested and manage properly is what l am looking forward and the type of investment after the money is transferred to your account with your assistance. My name is Mr. Hemou Deddouh I am a man of 51 years old married with two lovely kids.



With due respect, I know that this message will come to you as a paramount contents, but simple means, on the course of the last three years 2008 ending of the year manual auditing report, I discovered an abounded sum of $17.200.000.00 (Seventeen million Two hundred thousand dollars) that belongs to one of our Late deceased customer and I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this fund left behind out of my Bank here into your account for my investment business enterprise as it were mentioning in above paragraph.



And I was the account officer to the deceased customer before his death and know every process of his project here in my country.



Already my bank have placed these funds on suspense account with no beneficiary and this fund have to be transfer into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill in few moment coming, and it will be only high directors who are going to share it amount themselves without any lower officers and as one of the officer of this bank I am, I cannot be directly connected to these money that is why l am contacting you to enable me direct you on how to move out the fund out the bank. Indeed I will appreciate if you can receive this money in your bank account and at the final conclusion 40% for you and likewise 50% for mine and 10% will map for any expenses which will came across during the process.



There are practically no risks involved, it is simple bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the next beneficiary to the deceased customer and I will use my opportunity and position in the bank to defend and support you till the end. And upon your request to this claim for immediate transfer, the remittance will not hesitate to transfer the said sum to your designated bank account.



Meanwhile, on indication of your willingness to handle this transaction sincerely and confidential, I will furnish you with more details about the procedure and modalities of transferring this fund into your account as soon as possible. Therefore, if you so desire, kindly give this matter urgent attention and get back to me on time.



Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Hemouh Deddouh,

For more discussion you can call me on my private line

+226 74 70 75 85



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