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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: Annisa Machiti <amachiti@qip.ru>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:39:39 +0400
Subject: urgent assistance request


Greetings dear one,

It's
Just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction. I am a banker by profession and currently holding the Post of
chief auditor in charge of debt recovery in our Bank.

I have
the opportunity of transferring an unclaimed funds ($10Million) Ten million
united state dollars from an account that belongs to one of our late foreign
customer Roman Blum a Polish nationality, who died after a brief illness, he
has no heirs to all his fund and estate, having no one coming up to claim this
funds and if left unclaimed will be transferred to the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund, please go through the website below for clearer details.

http://www.startribune.com/printarticle/?id=205034191

Hence,
I am inviting you for a business deal where we can facilitate to the transfer
of this fund and have promised 40% as your percentage once we are through, if
you agree to my business proposal further details of the transfer will be
forwarded to you as soon as I receive your acceptance mail.

Yours
faithfully

Annisa
Machiti

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