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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.Powel Jordan" <raheemali1949@gmail.com>
Reply-To: poweljordan35@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:25:41 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: REF: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE




Compliments,

Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may
offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and
writing through this channel.I got your contact from the proffesional data
base found in the internet Yahoo tourist search.When i was searching for a
foreign reliable partner.I assured of your capability and reliability to
champion this business opportunity.

I am (Mr. Powel Jordan) the Head of file Department in My bank here in
united kingdom

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £15.000.000.00.
(FiFTEEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS).In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family on (Monday 31st
July 2000) in a plane crash.Since we got information about his death,we
have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because we can not release it unless somebody apply for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,but
unfortunately i learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
along side with him at 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
or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after eleven years,the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and
i cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.We agree that 40% of this
money will be for you as foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a
foreign account and 60% would be for me and my woman colleague.That means
(£6 million) six million British Pounds for you and (£9 million) nine
million British Pounds for me and my partner.There after i will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of
the deceased indicating your bank name,your bank account number,your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply,I
will send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that
you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements
have been made for the transfer.

I am awaiting for your immediate response as you receive this mail.Extend
my sincere greetings to your entire family and bye for now.

Your’s faithfully,
Mr.Powel Jordan
FROM United Kingdom.



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