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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: "Email365.Team" <email365.team@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 01:28:08 -0000
Subject: Urgent Reply

My Name is Mr Henry Lido.I am an External Auditor of a financial
institution here in United Kingdom. During one of our major audits, I
personally discovered some floating funds; which was opened in 1993
belonging to a deceased person by name; Mario Gyori (until his demise),was
an international contractor with the Shell Petroleum Development Company
in the middle east. He died after a severe crash.


Since then, I have made several enquiries with his country embassies to
locate any of his extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. I
decided to do a proper search work. I now discovered that he died without
no HEIR apparent, he was not married either. This means that a credible
personal with detailed information can act as a successor. I cannot do
that because it is against the financial regulatory system. As a matter of
fact the Financial institution must not know that I have contacted you in
the first place.

I am contacting you to Quietly assist me in repatriating this huge amount
of money left behind by the deceased before it gets confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. The deceased had a
deposit presently valued at £1.9million. ( One Million Nine Hundred
Thousand Pounds Only)

After going through the company records and files also, I

discovered that :

(1) No one has operated this account since 1995;

(2)No other person knows about this account and there was no known
beneficiary.

AND IF I DO NOT REMIT THIS MONEY URGENTLY, IT WOULD BE

FORFEITED FOR NOTHING.

I will require your urgent reply so that we can proceed.

I am willing to give you 25% of the entire funds, then 5% should be set
aside to settle all expenses you and I may incure during the process of
transferring the funds.

All I require is your honest Co-operation and Confidentiality. I had to
send you this email through my private email address for security reasons.

Sincerely,

Henry Lido.


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