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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. Abdullah A Hosani" <abdullatifarab@gmx.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:05:25 +0900
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED

Assalamu alaikum Dear.

This letter must come to you as a surprise, but I believe it is only a day
that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am
pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal;I got your e-mail address through an internet yellow page web
directory and decided to contact you and ask for your assistance in this
urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality.

I am Mr.Abdullah A.Hosani,the Branch manager, National Bank of Abu Dhab
Hilton Cash-Office Branch Abu Dhabi U.A.E (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES), married
with four children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.

On July 6,2006,an America Oil consultant/National Petroleum Construction
Company. (NPCC) Abu Dhabi,that Mr.Thomas McCulloch, made a numbered
time(fixed) deposit for twelve calendar months,Valued at
US$17,500,000.00(Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only)in my branch upon maturity. I sent a routine notification to
his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder
and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the National
Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) Abu Dhabi that Mr. Thomas McCulloch,
who died along with his entire family in the plane crash On {Air France
447 crash}that took the lives of 228 passengers and crew on June 1,
2009.which you can confirm by yourself;

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9947133/Air-France-Brazil-plane-crash-pilot-had-only-had-one-hours-sleep.html

Most astonishing of my discovery was that, all records bear no next of
kin,meaning no member of Mr. Thomas McCulloch family knows about the
deposit therefore ,no member of his family will ever come forward to claim
the money,In order for the bank not to transfer the said sum of Seventeen
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only(US$17,500,000.00)
as unclaimed funds to the emirates treasury account,the above stated funds
most be claimed immediately by somebody standing in as late Mr.Thomas
McCulloch, Next of Kin, because According to(UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LAW), at
the expiration of (ten)years; the money will revert to the ownership of
the (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund,

This revelation is only known to me because I was his personal account
officer before I was posted to become the branch manager , now I seek your
collaboration to act as next of kin to late Mr. Thomas McCulloch to claim
the funds and move them into useful investments, we shall split the funds
between our self upon the confirmation of the money into your account,I
therefore agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set
aside for expenses incured during the transfer and 50% would be for me.

All it will take for you to Appy my bank's Legal Adviser/Attorney. It will
serve to introduce you to the bank, and of course trigger the processing
of your transfer request. The bank will then carry out some verification
procedures; example, they will demand for the deposit and death
certificate of the deceased.Every document that the bank attorney shall
demand from you,I shall provide. it's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer,

Please note that by the virtue of my position in the bank, I have worked
out the perfect modality as well as I shall provide the relevant
information's and documents for the successful claim and transfer of the
funds in the account that will be provided by you, I can not stand in the
forefront of this transaction because I work with the bank ,that is why I
have come to you, for assistance be rest assured that this project involve
no risk to you.Please kindly response to confirm this details below.

Your full Names & Your Marital Status
Telephone and Fax number
Nationality
Occupation & position
Age

Once i get those above requested information then I shall furnish you with
due process of concluding this transaction.

Regards
Abdullah.


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