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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: rachmd202@ozu.es
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:32:45 +0100 (CET)
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

From Mr.Rachmad matius
Auditing and Account manager


Compliment
of the
season!

It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter, which i believe,
will be a big surprise as we are both complete strangers. I work in one of
the bank's here in Jakarta and I am writing to you following an
opportunity in my office that will be of benefit to both of us. In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (Four Million six Hundred
and twenty Thousand Us Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer, Late Mr. Eamon Declan an Australia who unfortunately
lost his life in the Tsunami disaster in Thailand 2004 including his wife
and two of his daughters.

By this mandate given by the banking law and guidelines here stipulates
that such money if remained after Seven years, the money will be
transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds. We therefore go into
an agreement with you and also offer you a negotiable fee of forty five
percent" of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while "ten
percent" of the Fund to any Charity organizations of your choice in the
same trend, while "forty five percent" will be for me.

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized and we shall follow strictly all the legal
procedures entailed in our laws and international laws in transferring the
funds to you.The source of the funds is legitimate and authoritative.

Kindly notify me via my e-mail, upon you acceptance to assist me.Further
details will be made available to you as soon as you reply and i shall
provide you with my confidential phone number, once there is positive
response from you.

Best regards,
Mr.Rachmad matius


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