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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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Fraud email example:

From: Barr. Abaribe Morgan<nathan@netviatelecom.com.br>
Reply-To: barrabaribemorgan@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 21:24:27 -0800
Subject: Re:Get Back To Me

Attention: Dear Friend,

How are you doing today? I will explain myself little to you before I continue. My name is Okey Nwauke, Branch Manager of Access Bank Plc, Marina office.After a careful review of your profile and personality,I decided to contact you for this very important business transaction.I write to seek your interest over a partnership business transaction which I know you are capable to handle.

In my bank I discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars (FIFTEEN MILLIONS US DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2002 in a plane crash.Since I got information about his death,I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because I cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our financial guiding principles, but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation cannot be traced for the claim after the plane crash because he did not leave enough information for possible family identification.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one other official in my bank have decided to make this business proposal to you, to 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's treasury as unclaimed Bill going by the efforts of our Government to uncover unclaimed funds and return them to the Federation Account. On 13th April, 2017, they Government financial regulatory agency discovered another $43 Million Dollars and some local currencies unclaimed by a dead expatriate in his house in Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria because he did not leave enough family trace to repatriate the funds after he was found dead in hotel in Nigeria.His landlord one of the big wings Mr. Adamu is trying to lay claim on the money.Check the link below.

http://saharareporters.com/videos/efcc-uncovers-434m-n232m-%C2%A327800-ikoyi-apartment

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a citizen of our country cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner, this is why we need your involvement urgently.

We agree that 40 % of this money will be for you as our foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50 % would be for me and my colleague. Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement of the fund according to the percentages indicated in this proposal. 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 email the format 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 by me and my colleague in the bank for the smooth and effective transfer of the money into your designated bank account that you provide. We will make available our prove of ID for your perusal before commencement, possible we will have a written partnership agreement.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Email: barrabaribemorgan@gmail.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.Time is not a negligible factor in this business because we have limited time at our disposal.


Yours faithfully
Okey Nwauke
Abaribe Morgan
Telephone: +234-8105297720

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