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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: "Dr.Neuman Las" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <neumanlas00@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:08:37 -0800
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF US$48.223 MILLION

Attn:

{RE: TRANSFER OF US$48.223 MILLION} FORTY EIGHT MILLION TWO
HUNDRED & TWENTY THREE THOUSAND U.S(DOLLARS ONLY TO YOUR
ACCOUNT} [STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL]

I am Dr. Neuman Lasater Frost, the operational manager in
account management section in charge of credit and foreign
bills of one of the prime banks here in South Africa. I am
writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank who
perished on EGYPTIAN Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea
with the whole passengers on board. There is an account opened
in this bank by this late diamond and oil magnet who died
without a written or oral WILL attached to the account. Since
his death, I personally has watched to see the next of kin but
all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds
and no other person knows about this account or anything
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until
his death he was the manager of his company here in South
Africa.

The total amount involved is 48,223,000.00 USD. [Forty eight
million, two hundred and twenty three thousand United States
Dollar]. We wish to start the first transfer with
$20,000,000.00[Twenty million].and upon successful transaction
without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply
for the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.
THIS TRANSACTION IS 100 % RISK FREE provided you treat it with
utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Furthermore, your area of
specialization or country of origin is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this transaction.We are presently
affected by the South Africa civil service code of conduct
laws that prohibits civil servants from operating private
foreign accounts. I have secretly discussed this matter with
the manager of the bank who I must involve in order to have a
smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to any foreign
bank account which you are going to nominate.
On this note, I want you to act as the foreign beneficiary of
the fund from the deceased by providing your bank account
where the fund will be transferred for immediate investment on
any viable project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more
than 2 years without claim hence the money will be recalled to
the government treasury as unclaimed after this long period of
domancy. In view of this I got your contact through my
personal search to see if you can assist by providing your
safe bank account for the transfer or find a reliable person
who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or her
personal account. At the conclussion of the transfer 60% of
the fund will be for me, I will give you 30% of the total
transfer sum, 5% for charity both in Africa and in your
country while the remaining 5% will be set aside to settle
expenses both parties might incured during the transfer
process. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a
detailed information about the transaction.I will not fail to
bring to your notice that this business is 100% risk and
trouble free and that you should not entertain any fear as all
modalities for fund transfercan be finalized within 7 to 9
banking days, after you apply to the bank as the beneficiary
of the fund from the deceased.

Kindly send me an e-mail in order to know action and stand, in
order to have this fund transfer to your account immediately.
Have a nice day as I entrust this transfer into your hands.
Let me hear from you.
Urgently.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Neuman

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