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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.umaruzongo" <umaruzongo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 19:42:37 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSURANCE OF TRUST.

Dear Friend,

I got your email contact through a personal search and decided to let you
know about this packaged financial transaction that will benefit us. I am Mr
Umaru Zongo, the Group Executive Director/ Group Finance Director of the
Standard Chartered Bank PLC On the course of the 2011 end of the year's
report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the Chief Auditor had
Fifteen Million United States Dollars (15,000.000.00 USD) of which no
body/staff or director is aware of and will never be aware of, which the
fund is presented in the files of our late customer bank account in our
Bank.

As the Group Finance Director, I cannot be directly connected to this money
thus I am compelled to request for your assistance to receive this money
into your bank account.

This fund will be shared between us in the ratio of 50% for me and 40% for
you. While 10% for any incurable expenses that will come during the
transfer, Please If you accept my offer, kindly contact me on my private
email contact umaruzongo@gmail.com for more details. In course of this
transaction, there are practically no risk involve because it will be a
bank-to-bank transfer. Please this is very confidential transaction please.

I will appreciate your timely response.
With Regards,
Mr. Umaru Zongo.

NOTE: Please if however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly delete this
email in view of the confidentiality and let me know as soon as possible to
enable me look for capable one.
my private email umaruzongo@gmail.com

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