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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: "joad" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <1952dano@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:51:13 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR HONEST OPINION PLS.


Good day

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be
treated as such, I am Dano Mani, a lawyer and solicitor at law. I
am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Greg Wang
hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil
merchant in my country before he died in a car crash with his immediate
family on the 28th of July, 2006.

I carried out this search on you and I am contacting you because Since the
death of my client, I have written several letters to his embassy with an
intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such
efforts have been to no avail.

However, going by the recent publications by the Trustee bank in which my
client deposited the sum of 72.5 Million U.S Dollars, I fear a likely winding
up proceedings in the coming months. I seek your consent therefore, to present
you to the trustees as my client's next of kin so that you can help repatriate
the money to a foreign account and I promise a fair share of 70%-30% in my
favor for you at the end of the transfer.

If you are very interested, and I shall appraise you with the full details.
I want to assure that I have all the requirements to execute this claim.
Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please let me
have your opinion as soon as possible and send to me your telephone and fax
numbers to enable us discuss further on this transaction.

Reply at your earliest convenience so that I can proceed timely from this end.

Best regards,

Peter Mani (Esq).

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