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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: afathiamahoud12@terra.com.pe
Date:
Subject:

Dear Friend.

reply to my private= email address: (
mrs.afathiamahmoud44= 75@yahoo.com)

Greetings to you and your family, I am the manager o= f bill and
exchange in THE BANK, I have a business of 5.5 Million United= State
Dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your cou= ntry,
if you are ready to assist me get back to me, I will give you full=
details on how the fund will be transfer to you.

Be rest assured= that everything will be handled confidentially
because, this is a great= opportunity we cannot afford to miss, as it
will make our family profit= a lot. it has been 6 years ago, that most
of the greedy African Politic= ians used our bank to launder money
overseas through the help of their P= olitical advisers most of the
funds which they transferred out of the sh= ores of Africa were gold and
oil money that was supposed to have been us= ed to develop the
continent.

The Political advisers always inflat= ed the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts so I also used the op= portunity to divert part of the
fund worth fiva million five hundred uni= ted state dollars I told you
about and I am aware that there is no offic= ial trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such = transfers of fund at
that particle time were closed after transfer.
<= br>I am the account officer to most of the politicians and when I
discov= ered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I
also clea= ned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no
one cared t= o ask me for the money was too much for them to control, as
I am sending= this message to you, I was able to divert five point five
Millions Doll= ars ($5.5M)which is in an escrow transit account
belonging to no one in = the bank, and now my bank is very anxious to
know the real beneficiary o= f the funds is for they have made a lot of
profits with the fund.It has = been more than five years ago and most of
the politicians are no longer = in power again and they don't use our
bank to transfer funds overseas an= ymore since their tenure had
expired.

The $5.5 Million United Sta= te Dollars has been lying in the bank as
unclaimed fund and I will soon = retire from the bank immediately the
fund is transfer into your account = over there Immediately the fund has
been successfully transfer into your= account I will come to your
country for the sharing of the fund, the fu= nd will be shared 50% for
me and 40% for you, and the other 10% for the = orphanages home and poor
with less-privilege people.

Please know = that there is no one that is going to question you about
the fund if you= will comply with me and follow my instruction which
will help us a lot = to achieve this goal for everything is well
secured.

Please indic= ate your interest in this transaction by replying back and
if you are no= t interested do not waste your time to reply kindly
delete my message fr= om your box ok.

Please contact me through my private email address:<= /span>

mrs.afathiamahmoud4475@yahoo.com
Waiting to hear from you soon.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Afathia Mahmou= d
E-mail/ pls reply to my private email address
mrs.afathiamahmoud4475@yahoo.com

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