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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Aida Abbudin <info@bank.db>
Reply-To: <hamedabbu@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:09:04 -0800
Subject: Banking Secrets that Banks =?UTF-8?Q?Don=E2=80=99t=20Want=20You?=
=?UTF-8?Q?=20to=20Know!?=



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Pleased to meet you,

My name is Mrs Mimi H. Abbudin, I am the Administrative manager at a
Vault of a Financial & Security Institute here in United Arab Emirates
(Dubai).
I am contacting you based on a financial opportunity I discovered here
in our bank. It’s about an abandoned sum of $10.7m US dollars (Ten
Million seven hundred thousand United States dollars) in our safety
deposit vault, that belongs to one of our foreign customers, a citizen
of your country that shares the same surname with you, who died in plane
crash along with his entire family on 11th March 2010 on their way back
to United Arab Emirates (Dubai)
The banking policy can only allow the release of such funds to a
benefactor through an application as next of kin to the deceased. After
his death, the bank has been expecting a possible beneficiary, but no
luck, this institute has exploited all its ethical possibilities in
other to contact his possible relation or inheritor, but no success.

Since no one has come up since six years, I have made my own research
with the help of a private investigator,it is my knowledge that this man
has been living in United Arab Emirates for the past 18yrs and has never
returned back to his home. I also learnt that his wife and 5year old
daughter died with him during this accident. I am almost 110% sure that
no one is aware of the existence of these funds.
However, because of the international financial crises, a lot of reform
has been made within the United Arab Emirates Financial system; this
includes the new law on succession/claims which indicates a duration in
which such inheritance could be tolerated.

The Bank of United Arab Emirates has mandated our institute to release
the funds to the possible inheritor, Failure to respond to this
ultimatum would legally allow the Bank of United Arab Emirates
confiscate these funds as unclaimed estate (Which of course would go
straight to the Government´s pocket). It is therefore upon this entire
discovery that I have decided to contact you. I want you to know that I
am a senior member of this office. Being as an insider, I am equipped
with all classified secret information regarding the release of these
funds. I would be dedicated to making sure that I feed you with all
possible documentation and information required for the approval and
release of these funds.

Upon your acceptance to cooperate, I agree that 40% of this money will
be for you, 50% for me and 10% goes to any acceptable charity
organisation in Spain or your country. Please note that I have ONLY
discussed this with my husband. For time difference and confidential
reasons, I strongly advise that you communicate with me via my husband’s
contact details above; this should be done firstly via phone.
Immediately you get in touch back with me, I would be able to inform you
on how this could be concluded with my husband and you must follow this
direction due to my busy work at my office who will not give me much
chance to speak with you on phone and it is better I directed you to
communicate with my husband to smooth the transfer.

In conclusion, it’s my concern to demand your ultimate honesty,
co-operation and confidentiality to enable us conclude this transaction.
Please keep this very confidential and do not discuss it with anybody. I
GUARANTEE that this process would be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that would legally protect you from any breach of
law.(Husband contact Email: hamedabbu@outlook.com)I look forward to
hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Mrs Mimi H. Abbudin

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