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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: Desmond Jimoh <desmondjimoh@live.fr>
Reply-To: djmoh1083@talsos.lv
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:11:08 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Reply Back with your interest


Dear Friend,

 

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met
before. I am Auditing and Accounting section of Bank of Africa (B.O.A).

 

I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that
I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both
families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of
Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars ($12.5mUSD)
Immediately to your account.

 

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here
without any body coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the
nearest person to our deceased customer Mr. Andreas Schranner (the
owner of the account) who died a long with his supposed next of kin in
air crash since on 31st July 2000. I don't want the fund to go into our
Bank treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I
contacted you, so that my Bank will release the fund to you as the
nearest person to the deceased customer. For more information about the
crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

 

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete
it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give
you more details regarding this transaction and also note that you will
have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute
this business. And also after the funds has been transferred into your
bank account you will take 10% out as a compensation for the expenses
you will make in this transaction and 50% is for me. I need to hear from
you urgent so that I will give you more information regarding this
transaction.

 

1. SEND YOUR NAME

2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER

3. AGE.

 

Waiting for your urgent response so that we will starts immediately.

REPLY VIA: desmondjimoh@hotmail.fr

 

Best Regards,

Mr.Desmond Jimoh.








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