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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Abdel=20Rahaman?= <abdel6802@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:59:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear Friend,


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : abdel6802@yahoo.fr

Dear Friend,


How are you and your Family today? I am your Friend Mr. Abdel

Rahaman, I am the Regional manager of a Bank in Nigeria. I am married with two

lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don't want problems, I only hope

you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will

benefit you and I, as the Regional manager of my Bank, it is my duty to

send in a financial report to my head office in the Capital city Lagos

at the end of each Business Year.


On the course of the last year 2005 Business Report, I discovered that

my branch in which I am the manager made (Nine million five hundred

Thousand United State Dollars) (USD$9.500,000.00) which my head office

are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this fund on

what we call Suspence account with no beneficiary. As an officer of

this Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of

contacting you to assist me receive this money in your Bank account and

get some percentage of the total fund as commission after we negotiate.


There are pratically no risk involved, it will be a Bank to Bank

Transfer, all I need from you is to stand and claim this funds as the

Original depositor of this funds who made the deposit with my branch so

that my head office can order the transfer to your designated Bank

account. if you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.

Write me if you think we can work together so that we can go over the

details, Thank you in advance and may God bless you and your Family.


I will need from you if you agree to work with me:

your Name,

your contact Address

Your phone number and Fax number for easy communication.


Please ensure to reply me through this my address: abdel6802@earthlink.

net or abdel6802@yahoo.fr


Regards.

Mr. Abdel Rahaman

Regional Manager,




- Abdel Rahaman


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