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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: alayebabani04 <alayebabani04@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alayebabani001@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:46:02 +0000
Subject: WITH HONEST AND TRUST.

Dear friend,

I am the Director in charge of the foreign remittance department here
in this bank, and I am contacting you regarding our deceased Immigrant
property Magnate, he is from Over sea Country, also referred to as one
of costumer here in the bank who dead along with his next of kin. I
would like you to stand as the NEXT OF KIN / relative to my deceased
client, who made some deposits of $50,000,000,00 and a consignment of
6 KG of Gold for safe keeping with a bank here in my country
Lome-Republic of Togo. Bank (NAME WITHHELD). He died without any
registered NEXT OF KIN and as such the funds now have an open
beneficiary mandate.

If you are interested please try and get back to me so that i can give
you comprehensive details on what we are to do. I urgently hope to get
your response as soon as possible.

I sharing ratio stands 50% for you and also 50% for me. Kindly contact
me to enable me to give you the full details of this transaction for
your better understanding.

Kindly forward all the required information's to me urgently.

Regards,
Alaye Babani.

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