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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: alli adel <alli_adel2@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:42:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement from Alli Adel


Dear VICTIMNAME,

I received your response to my business proposal to you and I am happy to hear that you are interested in this venture. Without any further delay, I will proceed to bring you
into a clearer picture of the whole transaction. I am Mr. Alli Adel, who is presently the Head of the central computer department of the United Bank of Africa ( You have heard of the word delete, this will make it easy for me to delete the history of the funds from the central computer system, after the funds have been successfully whisked out).

Harry, the nature of assistance I want from you, is for you to pose as the only surviving next of kin of late Mr. Raymond Beck and I will attest to this with some legal
backings, for the funds to be released to you, for us. I was the account officer to late Mr. Raymond Beck and this makes me to be privy to a lot of things that I will unveil to you as we progresses. I have the where withal to legally present you as the next of
kin to late Mr. Raymond Beck. The local attorney of the late Mr. Raymond is also involved in this deal and that will make it a lot easier for us. The sharing ratio is 30% for you, 30% for the attorney and 30% for me, while the balance of 10% will be
used for reimbursement of all local and international expenses that all parties will incur in the cause of the transaction.

Harry, as an expirience banker, I will apply on your behalf that the payment of the money should be made in cash and delivered to an offshore payment centre in Europe, since that is the designated off-shore payment center for the first quarter and you will have to travel to Europe to make cash collection of the funds. This is necessary for security reasons so that the movement of the funds will remain
untraceable for ever. You will agree with me that a wire transfer of the funds can be traced and I do not want to leave any stone unturned, these are security measures I have put in place to ensure a successful withdrawal of the funds, and a peaceful
transaction. Even if you are unable to travel to Europe when the time comes, then you could ask the offshore payment center to release and airborne the funds to your
country, through a diplomatic means.

This is the superficial introductory session of the deal. I will await your response, upon
which I will give you further hints on the execution of this loafty transaction.

Remain blessed as I await your urgent response.

Yours sincerely,

Alli




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