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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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Fraud email example:

From: Faisal Yassin<faisyssin@gmail.com>
Reply-To: faisalyassinae@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:14:33 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: Sincere regards

Dear Friend,
I trust this email would have reached you in good health because it is meant to bring forth to you and your family glad tidings.

I am writing this email as a result of a very recent opportunity that presented itself at my branch office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Iam of the Fund Managers with one of the reputable banking institutions here in the U.A.E named National Bank of Abu Dhabi (N.B.A.D) and my name is Faisal Yassin.

The reason why I decided to get in touch with you is because of the possibility for both of us to be able to take advantage of certain
amount of funds that I detected that has been warehoused within my banks account books for such a long time without it been claimed. Now this is actually the origin of the money. Sometime in 1998, an investor who has interests within the UAE, and middle eastern region ventured into our branch and made a fixed deposit transaction for an amount of Ten Million United States Dollars ($10,000,000.00).

The deposit was supposed to be rolled over every 90 days according to the customer?s instruction at the time of making the transaction.However, he also stated in his ?customer instruction? that he must be contacted first before the roll over gets carried out. This is supposed to provide him the opportunity of renegotiating for a better interest rate.

However, upon the fixed deposit maturing, our bank tried several times to get in touch with the client through the telephone numbers in provided, and email address. But all to no avail. Therefore, the best that could be done was to continue rolling over the funds until instructed otherwise. Not until almost a year later that our customer service unit came across a shocking information information about the client. The information we received was that in June 6, 1999 the customer had died in the plane crash On October 31, 1999 on an Egyptian Airline Boeing 767 Flight990 with other passengers on board. You may confirm it yourself via the link to the website as shown below.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

The most astonishing and amazing thing about the whole transaction is that the customer did not indicate any names for any next of kin that could be contacted to claim the funds in case of any emergency. Which actually meant that the funds remained as it were all this while until date, because nobody has put a claim to it.. As I write this email to you, the said funds have been designated as unclaimed funds and by the end of next month shall be transferred to the treasury account of the Emirates government by my bank. The reason been that the law of UAE states that funds that remain within a bank institution that have not been claimed for over 10 years consecutively shall automatically be moved to the government account.

The reason why I got in touch with you is because I would like both of us to collaborate with each other in order to get these funds claimed through a process that is authorised by our bank for funds of this nature. I shall provide you with the necessary processes and documentation requirements to foster the claim process. Please be very well aware that I alone cannot personally claim this funds by myself because I require an outsider like you. I will only be able to play my role as an insider, because without me, you cannot also be able to claim the money all by yourself. Therefore, we need to collaborate as partners. Upon a successful claim process, we shall share the money equally between the two of us at a ratio of 50-50.

If you are interested in this proposal I am making to you please kindly confirm by sending to me the following:

1. Full names.
2. Address.
3. Contact telephone number.
4. Occupation.
5. Age.
6. Nationality.

I make this goodwill offer to you in good faith, and therefore expect you to treat it as such please. If you agree to accept the offer then we are surely going to reap the benefit of a good partnership,however, if you are not interested, then please simply discard this message and do not disclose it to any other third party.
Sincere regards,
Faisal Yassin.





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