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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: "Societe Generale Bank,France" <card8888@bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: matt_ollivier2008@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:47:21 +0000
Subject: Foreign Partner



--
Matt Ollivier is my name [Private
Audit Dept]Societe Generale
Bank,France.
There is an account opened in this
bank in 1997 and since 2003 nobody
has operated on
this account.Going through
records,I discovered
if this money is not remitted out
urgently it would be forfeited to
the government as an
unserviceable dormant account.The
account owner was Dr. Nordeen El
Halaab,
a foreign geologist miner-Kruger
Gold Company,died 2003 in a plane
crash.No knowledge of

details
of this dormant account since his
death.



My findings during auditing end
2006,the deceased had no
will nor next of kin/beneficiary
and his last employers' are not
aware of this account

total sum of
[US$19,350,000.00].I wish to
transfer this fund into a safe
foreign account.My

estimates,this
transaction will be within 10
working days as soon as we hear
from
you further details will be sent.


Regards.

M Ollivier.
matt_ollivier2007@yahoo.fr

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