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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: "Vitalo Amancio" <vitlmancio@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: vitlamacio@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:43:30 -0000
Subject: Good News.




Hello,

It is pleasure contacting you, I am Vitalo Amancio an attorney here in
Madrid, Spain. I am the attorney to late Madam Isabelle Jenny Benjamin of
Australia.
It may interest you to know that I am a man of peace and do not want
problems but only hope we can assist each other. I have packaged a risk
free financial transaction which will be highly beneficial to both of us.
I am contacting you based on the latest development at my late client’s
bank which I will like to bring to your personal notice in order for you
to assist and help me secure the fund left behind by my late client whom I
am her attorney in order to avoid the fund being confiscated by her bank.
The sum of Four Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand United Dollars
(US$4,280,000.00) was left behind by my late client before her death, so I
wish to present you to her Bank as the Next of Kin to my late client, so
that the fund will now be transferred to you as the Next of Kin, because I
have made every human effort to contact any of her direct relations but to
no avail and her bank has given me a deadline to present any of her
relations or her Next of Kin, if not the fund will be confiscated by the
bank.

This informed my contacting you for us to work together so that you can
assist and help to receive the fund into your bank account for us to
SHARE. You will take 50% of the total fund as your share, while I will
take 50% after the fund has been transferred into your account.
Note that there is practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank
transfer. If you accept this offer to work together with me, I will
appreciate it very much. I do solicit for your strictest confidence in
this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
confidential and TOP SECRET. This transaction desires an absolute
confidentiality and professionalism in handling of this matter.
Please, let me know what your response will be to this offer of receiving
this fund and if the above proposal interests you and you sincerely wish
to assist and help. Then I will urgently want you to email to me the
required information as stated below so that I will present and introduce
you to my late client’s bank as the Next of Kin.

1. Your Full Names.

2. Full Address

3. Your Telephone or your Mobile Number.

4. Your Occupation.

Anticipating to hearing from you soonest.

Yours Faithfully
Vitalo Amancio
Madrid, Spain.

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