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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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Fraud email example:

From: "amalhammadi5@hotmail.com" <ugoprine@yahoo.com.vn>
Reply-To: amalhammadi5@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:30:56 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Assalam alaikum.


Assalam alaikum.
FROM MR AMAL AL HAMMADI,
MANAGER National Bank of Abu-Dhabi
Government Complex Branch (Delma)In Tamm Center.
P.O.BOX 50670 Abu-Dhabi,
U.A.E.  
Dear Friend,
This letter must come to you as a surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am pleased to get across to you for a  very urgent and profitable business proposal; I got your e-mail address through an internet  yellow page web directory and decided to contact you and ask for your assistance in this  urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality, I am Mr.Amal Al Hamadi, the Branch  manager, National Bank of Abu-Dhabi Government Complex Branch (Delma)In Tamm  Center. Abu-Dhabi (U.A.E) United Arab Emirates, married with four children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in  my department, On June 6, 1999, an America Oil consultant/contractor with Petroleum Corporation, Mr.  Elsayed Agwah, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calendar months, Valued at  US$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars )in my branch upon maturity.  I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation that Mr.Elsayed Agwah died in the plane crash On October 31, 1999, (an Egyptian Boeing 767 Flight 990) with other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the website below
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml
Most astonishing of my discovery was that, all records bear no next of kin, meaning no  member of Mr.Elsayed Agwah family knows about the deposit therefore ,no member of his  family will ever come forward to claim the money, In order for the bank not to transfer the  said sum of sixteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($16,500,000.00) as unclaimed  funds to the emirates treasury account, the above stated funds most be claimed immediately  by somebody standing in as late Mr.Elsayed Agwah, Next of Kin, because According to (UNITED  ARAB EMIRATES LAW), at the expiration of (eleven) years; the money will revert to the  ownership of the (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund, This revelation is only known to me because I was his personal account officer before I was  posted to become the branch manager , now I seek your collaboration to act  as next of kin to late Mr.Elsayed Agwah to claim the funds and move them
into useful investments, we shall  split the cash between our self upon the confirmation of the money into your account,  And  as a Brotherhood matter I am ready to share it with you 50%/50%.Please note that by the virtue of my position in the bank , I have worked out the perfect  modality as well as I shall provide the relevant information's and documents for the  successful claim and transfer of the funds in the account that will be provided by you, I  cannot stand in the forefront of this transaction because I work with the bank ,that is  why I have come to you, for assistance be rest assured that this project involve no risk to  you, upon the receipt of your acceptance mail ,I will like you to provide me with the  following details, bellow to my private email :
1) Your direct mobile/number...............
(2) Your Full name..........................................
(3) Country resident address.................................
(4) Your private E-mail box..............................
(5) Company name and position.............................
 Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any  
 delay.
 Regards
 Mr.Amal Al Hammadi
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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