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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: Mr John Osajie <f------43@att.net>
Reply-To: mrjohnosajie@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:58:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Good day My Dear,



Good day My Dear,



Hope all is well with you and your family, I am John Osajie, a banker with United Bank of Africa Nigeria and please I want you to read carefully because this is a great opportunity for both of us I want to bring to your notice that, there was an executive board meeting held in our office recently in regards of unclaimed funds. The issue of this $12.5 million fund was among the agenda of the meetings.



The real depositor of these funds was late Mr. Shan Kenneth a contractor with Oil Company here in Nigeria, he died with his wife and their 2kids in Earth Quake tsunami in Indonesia his home town. I made the executive board members to understand that the late depositor's next of kin/partner has filed application for claims The board members made it clear to me that, if the fund remain unclaimed soon, the same fund will be plugged back to the bank treasure as unclaimed fund.



I seek your consent to present you to the bank as foreign partner to late depositor also the beneficiary of the fund .I have successfully worked on the funds files and awaiting your go ahead order.



The fund has been approved for remittance to the beneficiary partner of the depositor, as soon as you contact me back for the claim, and then start the process of transferring the fund to you without any further delay. I want you to understand that our sharing ratio will be 50/50 there is no risk, involve in receiving this money, everything is legitimate and legal



I expect you to be trustworthy and kind enough to respond positively to my INQUIRY.





Sincerely Yours

Mr John Osajie

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