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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: Muhammad Sagir <msagir2200@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:38:10 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE AND PERSONAL

FROM THE DESK OF MR. SAGIR MUHAMMED.

*BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER, UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA-(UBA)*


*LUANDA ANGOLA*


*Compliments, *

* CONFIDENTIAL.*

* I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of United Bank for Africa.(UBA) I am writing following a brief
profile of you i saw today. I presume you are capable and reliable to
handle this deal. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $
16.2m US dollars (million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November
2011 in an accident. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to show up and claim his money because according
to our regulations we can't release the fund unless a claim is put up by
his next of kin or acclaimed relation of the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines but unfortunately nobody has showed up, on my
investigation I learnt he ran strictly secret account, known only to his
next of kin, who incidentally died with him in that accident. *



* It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials 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 dont want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill, which process
they will start if nobody comes up. The Banking law and guideline
here in Angola stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six
to Ten years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, an Engineer
with an oil exploration coy and an Angolan cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 30% 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 60%would be for ;me and
my colleagues.*

*There after I and my colleagues will visit you for disbursement according
to the percentages agreed.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 to the deceased indicating your bank name, your
bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and place of remittance .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 has been well
planed to be hitch free with the partnership of the ED and there's no
implication whatsoever against you in this as all required arrangements
have been made for the transfer .*

*You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.*

You can also reach me at *sagir.a@yahoo.com <sagir.a@yahoo.com>*
*Trusting to hear from you soon.*

Yours faithfully,
*MR. Sagir Muhammed.*
Bill and exchange manager,
*United Bank For Africa.(UBA)*


*This sender e-mail address is private. The content of the messages sent to
this address is also private intended only to the addressed recipient, and
therefore the information in this e-mail message shall be treated as
confidential and any form of circulation is strictly forbidden. If you are
not the intended addressee of this message, you are kindly invited not to
spread and to delete it, giving notice to the sender. Regards.*

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