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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:
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Abdulah Husman <husmanabdulah@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 01:41:12 +0000
Subject: REPLY FOR MORE DETAILS
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Attn Friend
Greetings to you and your family , Am a manager of bill and exchange in
bank, i have business of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro (5.5
Million Euro) to be transfer to your account for
investment in your country if you are ready to assist me get back o me i
will give you full details on how the money will be transfer to you.
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because
we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that
most of the greedy Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseas
through the help of their Political advisers.
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa was
gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the
continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part
of the funds hence I am aware that there is no of facial trace of how much
was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being
closed after transfer.
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I
discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank file sand no one cared
to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
They laundered over (90 Million Euro ) during the process .As I am sending
this message to you, I was able to divert Five Million Five Hundred
Thousand Euro (5.5 Million Euro) to an escrow account belonging to no one
in the bank.
The bank is anxious now to know who is the beneficiary to the funds because
they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years
now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer
funds overseas. The((5.5 Million Euro) has been lying waste but I don't
want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver.
The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you,There is no one coming
to ask you about the funds because I secured everything.
please quickly reply me
Yours Faithfully,
Husman Abdulah
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