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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: "Danial Kuasi Jr" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <danialkuasi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:55:30 -0500
Subject: I Wait For Your Response

Dear Sir

How are you doing?. My intention of contacting you is to solicit your
assistance for a project, which will be mutually beneficial to both of
us. Though I know my decision to contact you through this medium, is to a
large extent
unconventional but the prevailing circumstances necessitated my action and
I know this mail will
come as a suprise to you but from a sincere heart I plead for your
assistance.

In a brief introduction, My name is De Malvis Jr from Sierra Leone. It is
my pleasure communicating with you for the first time and
believing that it will lead to a better
relationship between us. I have an inheritance which was left for me by
late father but the bank said they were instructed by my late
father during depositing of the money,
that it is only his business partner that is authorised to withdraw the
money because of my age when he made the agreement with the bank
but now my father is late and was killed by this his partner who was
suppose to withdraw the money and give to me according to my late father's
instruction and because of this, I am afraid of contacting the man or
letting him know I want to withdraw the money and I will never let him
know about the money or call him. Now after several
months of thought about this, I decided to explain the situation to the
Bank Manager and he said I should introduce another business partner of my
late father to withdraw the money for me and
transfer it to his or her country immediately for safety. Base on this, I
check through my late father's business diary where I saw your
profile and decided to contact you for this
great assistance since I have the plan to come and settle down in your
country and invest. So please I want you to stand as my late father's
business partner to enable us claim
the money from the bank where it is right now. And I also want to let you
know according to the Bank Manager, that this will involve a
little expenses because the Bank Manager
said that the new partner I will introduce, will have to make a change of
beneficiary and as well as obtain the remittance clearance
documents from the Ministries concerned so
that all the inittial documents regarding the deposited fund will read his
name i.e your name befor remittance to your country. The total
amount deposited is US$75.5million and I will like the whole fund to
be transferred
at once for safety.

Note that I resolved to compensate you with 30% of the total sum if only
you can assist me faithfully to claim the money and assist me
also in investing the money in any lucrative business in your country or
anywhere in the world you may deam ok and every expenses incured in moving
the money to your country account, will be refunded to you with interest.

Further to this, please I will give you more detail and forward all vital
information to you as soon as I hear from you. And the Bank
Manager said I should give you his private telephone number to call him
incase you find it necessary for any reason.

Regards as I urgently await to hearing from you.

Danial Kuasi Jr

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