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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: Mr Ramasa koko <ramaskok251@aol.fr>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 23:42:39 -0400
Subject: Re ;Your Kindly Reply Urgent !


Dear Friend,

I sent you mail before with respond from you, Please confirm if your email is still valid.

Well, how are you doing today? I will explain myself little to you before I continue. I am the manager of Bill and Exchange

at the foreign remittance department of United Bank for Africa (UBA).I am writing to seek your interest over a partnership

business transaction.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars (Fifteen Millions US Dollar) in an account that belongs

to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2012 in a plane crash. Since we got

information about his death, we have been expecting his 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 I learnt 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 one other official in my department have 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 Government treasury as unclaimed

funds.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven 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.

N.B, We agree that 40 % 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 which shall be reburies to you and myself immediately the

fund gets transfer into your account 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.

You should contact me immediately :( ramadakoko1965@email.cz) as soon as you receive this letter.I am trusting to hear from

you immediately as time is not a negligible factor in this business because we have limited time at our disposal.

Yours faithfully
Mr. Ramada Koko
Bill & Exchange Manager (UBA).
Reply immediately here for the urgent : ramadakoko1965@email.cz



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