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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: John Motula <johnmotula1@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: johnmotula@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:21:44 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Important Message


Dear Friend,

Good day,

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a large sum of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you That all will be well at the end of the day

PROPOSITION

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500, 000.00 (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign Customers by name LATE DR GEORGE BRUMLEY. This very account has been dormant for some years now. After my investigations, I discovered that the account owner has died since June 2003 in a plane crash. Since his death, nobody has come forward to lay claims to this money and recently my bank issued a notice that the account will be declared unserviceable and the funds called to the government treasury since no relative of the deceased customer came up.

In order to avert this negative action, I now seek your permission to present you as his next of kin so that funds to be released in your favor as the beneficiary.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following if you are willing to work with me actualize.

1. Your full name
2. Postal address
3. Date of birth
4. Telephone and fax numbers
5. Profession

This information will enable me work on the account file with view to officially indicate you as the bonafide beneficiary/next of kin to the deceased so that you can now apply for the release of the funds as the next of kin to the account. We are going to share the total sum on final conclusion of this project on a 50-50 equal

If you are truly disposed and capable of handling this with me, reach me immediately for further advice.

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE OF THE PLANE CRASH

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Regards,
John Motula

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