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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: GOOD BUSINESS PROPOSAL ON TRUST <mariausanga2015@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mariausanga2016@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:54:02 +0000
Subject: GOOD DEAL



I am Mrs. Maria Emilia Usanga from Spain married to Mr. Jonathan Thabo
Usanga from South Africa, for seven years now we have two kids. I am the
manager bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of a bank
here in Spain. I have a business proposal which I believe that will be a
very Good opportunity for both of us so I decided to contact you on this
business opportunity in our bank, the business is this,I discovered an
Abandoned sum of 45.5m US dollars (Forty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in our safety deposit vault that belongs to one of
our foreign Customer who died along with his entire family on 11th March
2004 in a ghastly train explosion in Atocha, Madrid-Spain.  Since we got
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come
over and claim his money because the management can not release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that all his Family died
alongside with him in the train explosion leaving nobody behind for the
claim.

I have the entire secret information’s of this deposit which will help
you to claim this money as the next of kin. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased since nobody is coming
for it and I don’t want this money to go into the banks treasury as
unclaimed funds or declared to the Government of Spain, once this is done
the Government of Spain will confiscate the funds, which is not good for
both of us. I agreed that 40 % of this money will be for you as a foreign
partner, in respect to your acceptance to do this business with me, while
60 % would be for me and my family.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the next of kin of the
deceased indicating your interest of claim of your inherited funds, upon
receipt of your reply through my e-mail, I will send to you by fax or
e-mail the text of the application which you will send to the bank. I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is a hitch free that
you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have
been made perfectly. At this moment you should feel free to contact me
through e-mail as soon as you receive this e-mail. You should understand
that this should be kept very confidential, let it be between you, me and
my husband only. This is the only way we can achieve success.  I will
level the whole arrangement here in the bank for the transfer to be
approved immediately.

Please take note my Husband is the only one that I have discussed this
business with and we both agreed to do this business with you, he answers
my phone anytime I am at work or not around my phone, for the security of
this business, please feel free to call my husband or send me an e-mail and
leave your contact e-mail,phone and fax numbers with him to enable me get
back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks and God Bless.

Best regards,

Mrs. Maria Emilia Usanga.

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