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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: "BELLO ALI" <belloali2007@msn.com>
Reply-To: belloali06@excite.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:05:23 +0000
Subject: Get back to me urgently

Goodday friend,

Am Mr.Bello Ali, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to ask
for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in
my
department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $18.5Million (Eighteen Million Five
hundred thausand Dollars)in an account belonging to one of our a foreign
customer(Neuweiler Adrienne)who was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor
with the Nigeria National Petroleum
coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip. He died with
his wife (Christine Adrienne) on board the Swissair Flight 111 ,which
crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The plane
crash was in the news.See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcript
s/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.We cannot release this money
unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our
banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for a
period of eight (7) years, it would be transferred into the MERCHANT BANK
Treasury as unclaimed fund.

Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer this money
into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy
collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go
back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out
this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country.

We have decided to give you 15% of the total sum. So please, as a matter of
urgency
send to me,

1.Your Contact address:
2.Contact Telephone & fax Numbers:
3.Age and occupation:
For effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can explain
the details to you to understand everything about this business. :email
address:belloali06@excite.com

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.

Mr.Bello Ali

email address:belloali06@excite.com


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