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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: "Ahmed Osman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahmedosman_244@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:28:33 -0400
Subject: Reply urgent

>From Mr Ahmed Osman
Accra Ghana West Africa

Dear Friend

I am Mr Ahmed Osman.. I am accounting officer in foreign accounts department in our bank.During our last auditing in our
Bank,My Department came across a very huge sum of money (us$8.5) Eight million five hundred thousand united state dollars,
belonging to a deceased customer of our Bank a Foreigner,who died in a car crash on 02 June 2010 while fleeing from civil
war in Cote 'd' Ivoire with his entire family.

Since then I have personally made several inquiries to foreign embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives,
this has proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any of his family
member but of no avail. hence I contacted you for you are a foreigner as our late customer.

I need your assistance in evacuation of the funds left behind by our client in the Bank before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the Government, because officially, financial laws here stipulate it that after five years any
fund or assets deposited with bank/security firm without claim or servicing, the money or assets will be divert to central
bank as unclaimed bill.

since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin of the deceased since you are a Foreigner as our deceased customer so that the proceeds of this deposit valued
at $8.5 million dollars can be paid to you and we share the money,

I will provide for you all necessary information bank will demand from you to prove that you related to our late customer.

I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law both before and after the claim.

You have to assure me that you will not sit on the fund when it is finally claimed by you.

If you are interested and ready to partner with me to claims this funds from our bank,you should send me a quick positive
response indicating your interest to partner with me on this deal for more directive on what you should do for the claim.


I awaits your quick response for us to proceed to next level which is to kick start the claiming process.

My Best regards,

Ahmed Osman.

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