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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: mariam lamins <mariamlamins25@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mariam lamins <mariamlamins23@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:01:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Urgent Response.


Dear friend.                    

 

Greetings to you and your family, Iam the manager of bill and exchange in THE BANK, I have a business of  15.5 Million United State Dollars to betransfer to your account for investment in your country, if you are ready toassist me get back to me, I will give you full details on how the fund will betransfer to you.

 

Be rest assured that everythingwill be handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity we cannotafford to miss, as it will make our family profit a lot.

 

It has been 7 years ago, that mostof the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseasthrough the help of their Political advisers.

 

Most of the funds which theytransferred out of the shores of Africa weregold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop thecontinent.

 

The Political advisers alwaysinflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used theopportunity to divert part of the fund worth fifteen million five hundred unitedstate dollars I told you about and I am aware that there is no official traceof how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers of fundat that particle time were closed after transfer.

 

I am the account officer to most ofthe politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed intheir greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bankfiles and no one cared to ask me for the money was too much for them tocontrol, as I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert fifteenpoint five Millions Dollars ($15.5M) which is in an escrow transit accountbelonging to no one in the bank, and now my bank is very anxious to know thereal beneficiary of the funds is for they have made a lot of profits with thefund.

 

It has been seven years ago andmost of the politicians are no longer in power again and they don't use ourbank to transfer funds overseas anymore since their tenure had expired.

 

The $15.5 Million United StateDollars has been lying in the bank as unclaimed fund and I will soon retirefrom the bank immediately the fund is transfer into your account over there.

 

Immediately the fund has beensuccessfully transfer into your account I will come to your country for thesharing of the fund, the fund will be shared 50% for me and 40% for you, andthe other 10% for the orphanages home and poor with less-privilege people.

 

Please know that there is no onethat is going to question you about the fund if you will comply with me andfollow my instruction which will help us a lot to achieve this goal foreverything is well secured.

 

Please note that if you areinterested in this transaction and you wish to receive the details of thistransaction from me then you must reply me back through my private box mariamlamins25@gmail.com    and please if you are not interested do notwaste your time to reply kindly delete my message from your box ok.

 

I expect your reply on my privatebox mariamlamins25@gmail.com   soonest.

 Yours,

Mrs. Mariam Lamins.



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