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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: Mallam Usman Sherrif <peterwiredu13@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usmansherif201@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:05:29 +0000
Subject: Hello

Hello,

I am very pleased to informing you of this development, I found an
active and professional bank that can handle the financial transaction
for you and I have suggested you as the beneficiary to the gold and
diamond deposits, mining concession and company ownership because I
found out more deeper information about the unclaim financial profile
of the contractor.

I have also exchanged several emails with the bank and they accept to
transferring the funds bank to bank to your country, also the bank
accept the delivering the 2100kgs of gold dust and 36,000carats parcel
of uncut diamonds to your country and same bank confirmed the
reception of pay off fee for refinery project which a total 120
Million USD so in total we have funds, gold and diamonds presently in
the contract escrow account ready for transfer to the rightful
beneficiary.

Do not contact anyone else or any bank else, all funds and values are
presently with the new bank and they demand I submit your following
details for the processing of the new deposit documents in your name
as the rightful beneficiary;

Send me the following details;

Full Name:.................................
Age:...........................................
Nationality:...............................
Profession:................................
Address:...................................
Telephone:.................................
Fax:.......................................
Mobile:....................................

Once I receive the above details I will forward it to the bank for
them to continue with the legal documents processing.

Always keep this new development and the project in general highly confidential.

Best Regards,
Mallam Usman Sherif.

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