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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <omarjnthn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:37:58 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY!

Hello
Permit me to inform you of my desire to go into a business
relationship with you, as you know My name is Barrister: JONATHAN,
from Togo. Actually i got your contact through my net work recharge in
search of my late client family members and going through your profile
i discover that you are having the same sure name with my late client
who was involved in a fatal car accident which was cause by a long
truck that involves his life and that of his wife and his only son.

Thus before the incident occur that affect the life of my client and
his entire family, my late client happen to make a fix deposit
contract agreement value (US$ 6.5 million) only, with the Eco bank in
Lome Togo, and ever since my late client died the bank has been asking
me to come and present my late client next of kin /business associate
to come and put claim over
their inheritance fund but base on my inability of getting in touch
with them this is the reason why i am contacting you to present you
officially to the bank as the next of kin because of your sure name
and with this sure name it will be very easy for the bank to
acknowledge as the legal beneficiary over this claim with reason that
all legal document regarding to this claim will be provided in your
name as the legitimate beneficiary to this funds

Actually, i receive a letter from the bank last week updating me that
the federal ministry of finance has instructed all the banks to return
all unclaimed funds back into our government treasure account, so this
is the reason why i am asking for your assistance to help me in
claiming this fund because i cannot operate on this deal without the
use of a foreigner who has a foreign bank account because my late
client is from USA .Please note that this offer is honorable and must
be taking very serious, furthermore I want you to participate in the
following areas and also reconfirm your data information to urgently
to me as listed bellow in section

YOUR DATA INFORMATION AS FOLLOW:

1 Your Country name:
2 Your full names:
3 Your residential /office Address:
4 Your Telephone/fax numbers:
5 Your Occupation:
6 Your date of birth/age: ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

I advise you to keep this transaction secret to yourself alone until
the bank acknowledge your fun claim and transfer this fund into your
bank account for our security reason, also note that after a
successful claims of this fund you will have 40% out of the total sum
and 50% for me 10% for any expresses that will come up on the process
of this transfer note, I guarantee you that this transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us,
as it is 100% risk free from both parties.

I waited for your urgent respond to allow me go the bank and present
you officially
Thanks

Mr JONATHAN (Eqs)
E-Mail: omarjnthn@gmail.com
Tel: +228-985 22034

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