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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: Susan M <mfekas154@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:28:51 +0000
Subject: Waiting for your response


Dear friend
I
am Susan Mfeka, a banker by profession from Accra Ghana in West Africa
and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit
of the bank. It's my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to
contact you for this business. I have the opportunity of transferring
the left over funds (US$13.5M) of one of my bank clients who died along
with his entire family on 31 July 2000 in a plane crash. You can confirm
the genuineness of the deceased death by clicking on this website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I
need a foreign partner who will support me because i can not claim this
money alone without a foreign partner since the deceased client (the
owner of the fund) was a foreigner.

This
fund (US$13.5Million) will be shared between us in the ratio of 60/40. I
agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foreign account while 60% will be for me and I want to
assure you that this transaction is absolutely legal and risk free since
i work in this bank and i have all the necessary information that might
be needed. Before we proceed, i would like to know your ability to
handle this over there in your country. Please tell me more about the
political/economic stability/monetary policy of your country. I need to
know all these because i don't want to have problem with the Government
of your country.

Kindly
update me with the following information because i want to know you
more before we proceed on this transaction. Hope you will understand the
importance of this request.

1. Your full name........................
2. Your age/sex ..........................
3. your occupation ................
4. Your residential address ..................
5. Your nationality ..............
6. Your private phone number ..................
7. Your fax number ...................

I will be waiting for your response. Thanks for your understanding. Have a great day.

Yours.

Ms. Susan Mfeka
































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