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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.IBRAHIM EL-SALIF" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <EL-SALI@qq.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:38:10 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE. VERY URGENT ATTENTION

 

Please I want you to read this letter very carefully and I must

apologize for bringing this message into your mail box without any

formal introduction due to the urgency and confidential of this issue

and I know that this message will come to you as a surprise,

My Urgent need for a foreign partner that is what made me to contact

you for this legal transaction. I am a B a n ker by profession from Dubai and currently holding the post of director Auditing and a c c o u n ting unit of the B a n k. I have the opportunity of transferring the left over Funds $100M of one of my B a n k clients who died Along with his entire

family in a plane crash on December 6 2003.

 

And I don't want the m o n e y to go into our B a n k treasury a c c o u n t as an

unclaim fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you so that our

B a n k will release this m o n e y to you as the next of kin to the deceased

customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as top secret.

And the sharing of this fund we be 30percent for you then 60percent for me and 10percent

for any expenses incurred during the transfer.

 

Your Urgent response is needed for immediate transfer of this fund in

to your receiving B a n k  a c c o u n t.Contact me via my private

email ibelsalif10@mailbox.hu

 

(FILL THIS FORM BELLOW PLEASE AND RESEND IT TO ME).

 

Your name in full

Your country

Your age

Your cell phone

Your occupation

Your sex

Your marital status

Your B a n k name

 

Best Regards,

Mr.IBRAHIM EL-SALIF,

Auditing Department, National B a n k Of Dubai

Ajman Branch, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)

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