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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: Abdul <sweetrenee0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: razak_abdul32007@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 13:48:09 +0400
Subject: Good day

Greetings

I crave your indulgence, knowing that this mail may be astounded to
you. My name is Bin Abdul Razak, a branch manager of the Emirates NBD
Bank, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates. I got your information during my
search through the Internet, and I decided to confide in you. It may
interest you to hear that I am a peaceful man by nature and I wouldn’t
want to involve my family in a mess. Though I do not know how you may
feel about this because you might have double mind about it, but I am
telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after
doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each
other. But if you are not interested in this business offer, kindly
ignore it and I will not contact you again.

There is a personal financial transaction that I would want you to
handle with me, which will benefit both of us. As the regional manager
of the Emirates NBD Bank, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates; it is my
obligation to send in a financial report to my head office at the end
of every year. On the course of the last two years end of the year
report 2014, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager
made Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars [7, 500,000.00] which
my head office is not aware of, and will never be aware of. I have
since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary, just to investigate the source, but I discovered at last
that it was an excess profit from our bank which nobody is aware of.
As an official of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this
fund, so I finally came in conclusion of contacting you as a foreigner
for us to carry out the deal together, so that you can assist me and
receive this fund into your bank account for us to invest in any
profitable venture for the betterment of both of us Meanwhile, if you
accept to transact this deal with me I will give you 30% of the total
fund, while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that maybe incurred
during the cost of this transaction while 65% will be solely belong to
me.
Note that there are practically no risk involved, all I desire from
you is sincere co-operation between both of us to achieve this goal.
If you would accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it
very much, as soon as I receive your response, I will give you the
details on how we can achieve it successfully.

I would appreciate your urgent response

Best Regards
Dr. Bin Abdul Razak

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