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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: Sebastian Felix <sebastian100felix@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: sfelix_sebastian@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:51:16 +0100
Subject: -- Dear Friend, Reply Asap

--
Dear Friend,

I am Sebastian Felix, The head of auditing and accounting section of
my bank. With due respect and regards, I have decided to contact you
on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us
at the end of the transaction.

We had a foreign client from your country who deposited a huge sum of
money (USD$10.4Million) with our bank. Eventually, this client was
among the victims of car accident that crashed on the 31-10-2008 in
Kumasi road but, since then we have not had any body coming for the
claims as the next of kin.

A situation I have monitored closely with my position in the bank.
Now, having monitored this deposit over the years after his death, and
hence nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past three and
half years, I have moved the file to my private volt.

I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin as
every other arrangement has being concluded by me and I am only
waiting for a foreigner to enable me move the fund to his account.
This does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal
documentations will be handled by me. I therefore request you to
confirm your interest by a return message and I will furnish you with
details.

Your interest will be negotiable before we commence this project.

I look forward to hear from you soonest.

Contact me via my email: <sfelixsebastian@gmail.com>.

Best Regards,
Sebastian Felix

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