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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. Ab " <ungeli@air.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Ab " <abjuly41776@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 00:32:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Let`s do some business!!

Dear Confident,
Pardon me for not having the pleasure of knowing your mindset before making you this offer. Here deal will be confidential between us both no third party will be involved unless in need am genuine by virtue of its nature. However my name is Mr. Abbass Lambert, Manager Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Limited.

I write for your assistance in a transfer of ($2. 4 Million US Dollars)into any foreign account provided of your choice, This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the Manager made as profit during the last fiscal year 2013. And I have already submitted an approved end of the year report to my head office in Accra and they were not aware of this excess and will never know of it. Since then placed this amount of ($2. 4 Million US Dollars) in an Escrow account with a Security code suspended.

Please as a staff of this bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money; thus I am impelled to request for your assistance and partnership to receive this money into your bank account and as my partner you are entitled to 40% of this fund, while 60% shall be for me. I do need to stress that, it's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is your full trust and co-operation that the fund will be safe in your account when transferred.

For easy communication send me your reply here on my personal email address: abjuly41776@gmail.com,,, with your full names and direct cell-phone number I will get back with you immediately thanks.

Sincerely
Mr. Lambert


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