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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: <ibrahimel@datafull.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:46:50 +0200
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

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

you for this legal transaction. I am a banker by profession from Dubai

in Gulf Regional part United Arab Emirates and currently holding the

post of director Auditing and accounting unit of the bank. I have the

opportunity of transferring the left over Funds ($100 million USA

Dollars) of one of my bank clients who died Along with his entire

family in a plane crash on December 6 2003.

And I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury account as an

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

bank will release this money to you as the next of kin to the deceased

customer. get back to me for more details

Best Regards,

Mr.IBRAHIM EL-SALIF,

NBD, Dubai.

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