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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.IBRAHIM EL-SALIF" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ibelsalif9@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:29:45 -0000
Subject: Re Trust 111

FROM THE DESK OF: MR.IBRAHIM EL-SALIF
 
The Office Of The Foreign Remittance
 
And
 
Auditing Department, National Bank Of Dubai
 
Ajman Branch, UNITED ARAB
 
EMIRATES (U.A.E)
 
 
 
 
 
REMITTANCE OF US$100 MILLION
 
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE.
 
VERY URGENT ATTENTION
 
 
 
 
 
Please I want you to read this letter very carefully
 
and I must apologize for bringing this message into your
mail box without any
 
formal introduction due to the urgency and confidential of
this issue and I know
 
that this message will come to you as a surprise, please
this is not a joke and
 
I will not like you to jeopardise with it.
 
 
 
My Urgent need for a foreign
 
partner that is what made me to contact you for this legal
transaction. I am a
 
banker by profession from Dubai in Gulf Regional part United
Arab Emirates and
 
currently holding the post of director Auditing and
accounting unit of the bank.
 
I have the opportunity of transferring the left over Funds
($100 million USA
 
Dollars) of one of my bank clients who died Along with his
entire family in a
 
plane crash on December 6 2003. please go through the
website.
 
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm
 
 
 
And I
 
don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury
account as an unclaim fund. So
 
this is the reason why I contacted you so that our bank will
release this money
 
to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I
would like you to
 
keep this proposal as top secret, And the sharing of this
fund we be 30% for you
 
then 60% for me and 10% for any expenses incurred during the
transfer.
 
 
 
From
 
banking experience it will take up to seven ( 7) working
days to conclude this
 
transfer. I sincerely need your help because this might be
my first and last
 
opportunity of making big money. I also would want you to
treat this affair as
 
both urgent, top secret and confidential. I want you to also
know that this
 
transaction will involve some expenses which will be shared
among both of us,
 
This payment will be effected through Swift Telegraphic
Transfer.
 
 
 
Your Urgent
 
response is needed for immediate transfer of this fund into
your receiving bank
 
account.Contact me via my private email:
(ibelsalif@gmail.com) or
 
(ibisah01@gmail.com)
 
 
 
(FILL THIS FORM BELLOW PLEASE AND RESEND IT TO
 
ME).
 
 
 
Your name in full..................................
 
Your
 
country.........................................
 
Your
 
age...............................................
 
Your cell
 
phone....................................
 
Your
 
occupation...................................
 
Your
 
sex...............................................
 
Your marital
 
status................................
 
Your bank
 
name....................................
 
 
 
Best Regards,
 
Mr.IBRAHIM
 
EL-SALIF,
 
NBD, Dubai.
 
 

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