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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: Claim Of Inheritance Fund <proposal@ukmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.james_davis@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:13:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Transfer Instructions



--
Dear Partner

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only
a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners.
This is a personal mail directed to you and I request that it be treated
as such. One has no doubt in your ability to handle an international
business of considerable TRUST, which may form the bedrock of an
extensive business partnership in the future.

When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability
and reliability to champion this business opportunity when i prayed to
God or Allah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum
of $32,000,000.00(Thirty Two Million United States Dollars only) . In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with
his entire family in 2008 in a plane crash. Since we got information
about his death,

PROPOSITION: we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for
it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I and one official in my department now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin
or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.

SHARING ARRANGEMENTS: The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that
if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner, and a British cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. We agree that 40 % of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 %
will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50 %
would be for ;me and my woman colleague. There after I and my family
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.

EXECUTION OF THE PROPOSED DEAL: Therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the
bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank
name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number
for easy and effective communication and location where the money will
be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. James Davis
Morgan Stanley Bank Member

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