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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: lamido lamido <lamidosanusilamido100@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lanido.sanusi@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 16:29:40 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.

FROM THE DESK OF LAMIDO SANUSI LAMIDO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
(A.D.B) NIGERIA ABUJA


Dear Friend,


URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED



I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of (A.D.B) I am writing to you following the impressive
information about you through one of my friends who worked with
NIGERIA chamber of commerce and industry recommended your personality
and reliability to champion this business opportunity.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10.5m US
dollars(TEN Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) .In an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his
entire family in December 2010 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting the
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learn t that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside
with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained Unclaimed after six years, the money will be transferred
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as
next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Africa cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign
partner,

in respect to the provision of a foreign account,10 % will be set
aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for
me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin
of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

LAMIDO SANUSI,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,

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