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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.nazarianmsi@ono.com" <mr.nazarianmsi@ono.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:47:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?ASSALAMU_ALAIKUM_CAN_I_TRUST_YOU_ON_THIS_BUSINESS=3F=E2=80=8F?=

Greetings,

I am Mr.Nazarian Morsi a banker, i know that this mail
will come to you as a surprise as we have never met before, but need
not to worry as I am contacting you independently of my investigation
and no one is informed of this communication. I need your urgent
Cooperation in transferring the sum of $11.3 Million dollars
immediately to your private account.The money has been here in our
Bank lying dormant for years now without anybody coming for the claim
of it.

The fund belong to our deceased Customer Mrs.Shannel Lake who
perished along with her family since January 31 2000. The Banking
laws here does not allow such money to stay more than 16 years,that
is the reason why i need your Cooperation in transferring the money to
your bank account so that we can use it to secure the future of our
both families because i don't want the money to be recalled to the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund. By indicating your interest I will
send you the full details on how the business will be executed. Please
keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if you are not
interested. Please, kindly reply me back through my private email
address for more explanations (mr.nazarian.morsi50@hotmail.com)


Best
Regards,

Mr.Nazarian Morsi.

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