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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: "okohia uche" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ucheokohia2016@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:58:13 -0700
Subject: URGENT

I am contacting you with due respect and regard and note that this in notone of those African scam so we will not want any thing that
wouldjeopardize  actualizing this business that is as sure as daylight.We want to transfer to an  overseas account($10.,500 000 .00 USD) Ten
million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from a Bank here in the United Kingdom.
I want to ask you If you are capable of handling this transaction or quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit
to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business. Trusting in you and believing in God and I pray that you will never let me
down either now or in future.
I am the Auditor General of one bank here in the United Kingdom, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened
in the bank in 2005 and ever since nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL]hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing as the bank will confiscate the whole sum.
The owner of this account is a foreigner, a great industrialist and Engineer, he died since 2008.No other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he was the C.E.O,
of an oil servicing firm here in the UK..
We will start the first transfer with Three million Five hundred thousand united states dollars[$3,500.000:00] upon successful transaction without
any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account.
The total amount involve is Ten million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars only [$10,500.000.00].  I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local person here. However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together when we meet
face to face after the first transfer of $3.5 Million before transferring the second part of $7million , am revealing this to you with believe in God
that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply so that
I will inform you the next step to take urgently.
Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 55% will be for me, send me your details required bellow for what you are to do next.
Full Names
Tell Phone
Address
Yours truly,
Uche Okohia

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