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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: Frank Roland <frankroland2004@bigpond.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 02:56:01 +0000
Subject: Awaiting For Urgent Reply


I am Mr. Frank Roland, Senior Credit Officer of Security Service Currency (SSC). I am contacting you for a business proposal and assistance to transfer my fund into your account, This letter Is to notify you about the sum of ($ 4.9 million usd) into a security company account for immediate transfer. This fund belongs to our client Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah who was the deputy governor of Baghdad in Iraq and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit of $4.9 million US Dollars .we later found out that the Deputy Governor has been assassinated in Baghdad . The websites below is a proof and verification of the news about his death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stmhttp://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6979
After further investigation i was also discovered that Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his deposit in our security company office, and that is why his fund was Not transfer to anyone of his family, It give me the opportunity to divert or transfer the fund into another foreign account as the business partner and beneficiary of the fund.
The reason for contacting you is that, I want you to receive the fund into your account in your country as the beneficiary of the fund and with my assistance in this company, we will work together to make a very good success to transfer the fund into your account then i will come to meet you in your country to share the fund together.
If you are interested please reply to proceed, and i will provide you with more details of this transaction.
Yours Faithfully,Mr. Frank Roland.

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