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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: "Mr.Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN)" <molua12345@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mbadoke132@outlook.fr
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 22:22:03 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP.

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr.Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) I am from Abuja Nigeria I am the
Private attorney to Late Mr. Jerome a national of your country who used to
work as a Managing Director in Oil Company here in my country Nigeria. On
the 25 June 2014, my late client Mr. Jerome his wife and their two children
were involved in a bomb blast in Wuse district as confirmed dead by a
medical specialist here in Abuja Nigeria.

Click the website and view the bomb blast.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28019433

Since then I have made several enquiries to your foreign authorities to
locate any member of his family so that they can take his corps back to
your country for a befitting burial and to claim his money and other
properties in my possession, but all efforts to locate any of his relative
was all in vain and his corps was later buried here in Abuja Nigeria at the
national cemetery.

My client Mr. Jerome deposited $7.5 million dollars (Seven Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in Bank Central Asia Jakarta
Indonesia (BCA) for Oil and Gas business. The Bank has issued me a notice
to provide the relatives of Mr. Jerome for repatriation of the money or
they will close down the account and the money confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Bank.

After these several unsuccessful attempts of getting his real family
member, I decided to track His family name on the Internet and other social
network to locate any member of his Family I saw your name and your email
address so I decided to contact you. I know that you are not the real
family member of my client Mr. Jerome but as you have the same family name
and the same nationality I seek your consent to present you as the relative
of Mr. Jerome so that the $7.5 million dollars will be paid to your account.

As his lawyer I have the right to present you to Bank Central Asia Jakarta
Indonesia as relative of Mr. Jerome and the bank will approve the fund and
transfer it into any account of your choice. Then I will come over to your
country so that we share the money. If you agree, we will share it 50% for
you and 50% for me.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of law. If you are interested, please
call me immediately so that I will give you full details of the transaction
or you can send me your mobile telephone number so that I will call you and
explain the transaction to you very well.


Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN)
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION AND CHIEF MINISTER OF JUSTICE, NIGERIA.

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