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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: BAYO MORRIS <nimces@tim.it>
Reply-To: bayomorris33@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:25:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: LET'S PARTNER

Dear Friend,

I Am Mr. Bayo Morris the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance
Department

in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent & confidential Business
Proposition for you &

for our overall mutual interest. On the 6th of March 2001, our Customer, an
American

National, late .Douglas .J. Stone, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the
Federal

Government of Nigeria, deposited a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch.
Upon

maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but got no
reply.

After a month we sent a reminder, & finally we discovered from his contract
employers

NNPC, that late Douglas .J. Stone ,until his death thirteen years ago in a
ghastly

terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to
Los

Angele's, California, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center
(WTC) with

86 people on board. All occupants of the Aero plane unfortunately lost their
lives. On

further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all
attempts to trace

his Next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and
discovered

that late. Douglas .J. Stone, did not declare any Next of kin in all his
official
documents.

This sum US$32Million is still floating in the bank and the interest is being
rolled over

with the principal sum at the end of each year .No one will come forward to
claim it.

According to Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 16years, the money will revert
to the

Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently,my
proposal is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of
late

Douglas .J. Stone.

This is simple. All I require is your honest and co-operation to enable us see
this deal

through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will

protect you from any breach of the law.I will want you to send to me on your
return email

the f following information for the transfer in your favor.

1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone and fax numbers

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus;(1). I as the
Originator

of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable Fund..(2). You as the Manager of
the Fund

will take 50% of the transferable Fund.Most importantly, CONFIDENTIAL as what I
saw as

the life wire to the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be
emulated

between you and me.You have to use this media to promise me that you will not
in any way

expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends,
Colleagues and

Co-Workers.

I will also want you to send your reply to this email(kendough333@yahoo.com) as
soon as

you get this mail to enable us discuss on the modalities and processes for
success of

this transaction. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding. I
wait for

your kind

Urgent Response.....Good Day

MR. Bayo Morris.

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