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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: "Jason Hooker" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <j.hooker222089@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:22:26 -0700
Subject: Attention!!

Attention

REQUEST FOR YOU TO STAND AS NEXT-OF-KIN AND REPATRIATE USD$22MILLION TO YOUR PRIVATE OR COMPANY ACCOUNT.

I am contacting you in Confidence, because I was presently mandated by the director of UBA Capital (Europe) Limited London to ascertain your interest and capability to co-operate with us in actualizing a highly rewarding transaction on repatriation of funds to your country.

Are you willing to be presented as the bonafide heir to My late client?

Until his untimely death by the Paris bomb explosion at France, my client operated a fixed account of Twenty Two Million United States Dollars (US$22,000,000.00) with UBA Capital (Europe) Limited London. Sequel to his death, the Bank made concerted effort to contact the immediate family in order to re-claim and transfer the ownership of the funds. Unfortunately, the Bank discovered recently that the immediate families of the depositor was also drastically affected by the same Bomb Explosion while on holidays.

Apparently, the funds are now in full custody of the Bank. After a very serious survey, I and the CEO of the Bank decided to repatriate this fund to a trustworthy and reliable overseas bank account for high yield investment portfolios. The modality of disbursing the funds will be discussed fully with the Bank-Account owner/provider, which we are offering you.

All the documents establishing the deposit of the fund and empowering you to be the heir/Beneficiary of the fund will be perfectly secured in your name if interested in helping secure the fund. Transfer of this fund can be swiftly and successfully implemented within 14 bank working days if you provide the necessary overseas infrastructure required to realize the objective. Keep this confidential information strictly to yourself and send your reply to my private email address stated below for assistance.

I await your reply.

Sincerely,

Jason Hooker
Phone: +447087668417
Email: j.hooker222089@gmail.com

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