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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: "Acu Arela" <exports@sssm.in>
Reply-To: acuareladec@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:10:05 -0600
Subject: Matter of Urgency!!!

Hello,

I Am Barrister Acu Arela (Esq.). I am contacting you for an urgent
business attention. Please pardon my means of communicating with you as it
was borne out of the need to reach you urgently. However if this business
proposal offends your moral or business ethics, kindly do accept my
sincere apology.


Having said that, Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this proposal,
this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top
secret. A deceased client of mine that shares the same surname with you
and of the same Nationality with you, died as a result of a heart-related
decease on the 12th of March 2006, leaving behind a deposited valued
amount of $6,720,000.00 US Dollars with a finance company. His heart
condition was due to the death of all members of his family during the
Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, which occurred on 29th August 2005, during
there August holiday. He is an expatriate engineer/ consultant who worked
in the west coast of Africa for over Twenty years.

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the release of the
funds left behind by my late client, to avoid it from being confiscated or
returned to the Government as unclaimed funds by the finance company in
Nigeria. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any
one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day.

The Finance company has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin to
my client or the account will be declared un serviceable and the fund
diverted to the Bank treasury, So far, all my efforts to get a hold of
someone related to him has proved abortive. And the bank can not release
the fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased, as
indicated in the banking guidelines. Hence, I have contacted you. I am
actually asking for your consent to present your information to the
finance company as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund,
since you share the same surname and also from the same country of origin
with him, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. All the
legal documentations to back up your claim as my client's next of Kin, I
shall provide. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
achieve this transaction.

I wish to point out that upon completion of this transaction, 10% of this
money will be giving or shared amongst charity Organizations, while the
remaining 90% shared equally between us.This transaction is entirely risk
free. I will use my position as the client’s attorney to guarantee the
successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please
contact me immediately.Upon your response, I shall provide you with more
details and relevant documents that will help you understand this
transaction properly. This transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I await your response ASAP.



Kindest Regards
Barrister Acu Arela (Esq.)

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