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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: Samuel Opam <sam.opam@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:31:53 +0000
Subject: Urgent
*l am Samuel Opam, a banker by profession from Accra Ghana in West Africa
and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of
the bank. It's my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact
you for this business. I have the opportunity of transferring the left over
funds (US$11.5M) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire
family on 31 July 2000 in a plane crash. You can confirm the genuineness of
the deceased death by clicking on this website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>*
*I need a foreign partner who will support me because l can not claim
this money alone without a foreign partner since the deceased client (the
owner of the fund) was a foreigner.This fund (US$11.5Million) will be
shared between us in the ratio of 60/40. I agreed that 40% of this money
will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account while
60% will be for me and I want to assure you that this transaction is
absolutely legal and risk free since l work in this bank and l have all the
necessary information that might be needed. Before we proceed, l would like
to know your ability to handle this over there in your country.Please tell
me more about the political/economic stability/monetary policy of your
country. I need to know all these because l don't want to have problem with
the Government of your country.Kindly update me with the following
information because l want to know you more before we proceed on this
transaction. Hope you will understand the importance of this request.1.
Your full name........................2. Your age/sex
..........................3. your occupation ................4. Your
residential address .................. 5. Your nationality ..............6.
Your private phone number ..................7. Your fax number
...................I will be waiting for your response. Thanks for your
understanding. Have a great day. Yours.Samuel Opam*
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