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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: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:38:31 +0000
Subject: GOOD DEAL?


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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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