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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: "saleh jubril" <ssjjb6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sensalehj1m@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:17:46 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

GREETINGS,
 
 
My names  are DR SALEH JUBRIL.I am the operational manager in account
section incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the
prime banks
here in Nigeria. I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my
bank (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who
perished with his whole families on
25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH [ Flight AF4590 ] with
the whole
passengersaboard
 
 
PLEASE CHECK THE WEB SITE

 There is
an account opened in this bank in 1998 by this great late
INDUSTRIALIST
who died without a written or oral WILL attatched to the
account. Since his death , I personally has watched with
keen interest
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. The total amount involved
is$42,000,000.00 USD.[ FORTY
TWO MILLION DOLLARS) ]. 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 reapply for the
transfer ofthe remaining balance to your
account.I have secretly discussed this matter with the
general manager
of my bank who Imust 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 decided to seek for a reliable
foreigner who will act as the
foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by
providing his/her
bank account where the fund will be transferred into 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 six 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.
I WANT TO INVEST IN YOUR SECTOR AND OTHER BUSINESS
 I wait in anticipation of your co-operation in reply and also
ready for any
questions concerning the clearity of this transaction.
I WILL SEND YOU DOCUMENTS
Your sincerely,
DR SALEH JUBRIL


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