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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 Alan Edward" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alanedward@e-mail.ua>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:15:03 +0100
Subject: Confidential Please

Hello,


I am Mr Alan Edward, a staff of bills and exchange at the foreign
remittance Department of a commercial BANK in London. In
my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$10.5M) Ten Million,
Five hundred, thousand United States Dollars only, in an account that
belongs to Mr Donald Gusman who died along with his entire family in
26th December 2005 in a plane crash during their christmas holiday.


Since we got information about his death,the bank has been expecting
his next of kin to come over for the claims because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.


Unfortunately we learnt that he did not mention any beneficiary to his
account before his sudden death. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I and a colleague of mine in the office now decided to contact
you, with our suport as insiders in the bank, it makes it easier for the money to be released
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased since nobody is
fronting for the money and we do not want this funds to go into disbursement
account as unclaimed bills.


The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after Ten(10) years the money will be transferred
into the government account as unclaimed fund.


We shall negotiate on the percentage split of the funds as we proceed.
Therefore to enable immediate release of the inheritance to you as
arranged, you should contact me immediately via email for further
directives on how to go about actualizing the claim
in your name.Email the below information.


Your full name:
Tel/mobile number:
Occupation:
Age:


I look forward to your immediate response.
Best regards
Mr Alan Edward.

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