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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: Nicolas Abou Rjeily <nicolasabou@vera.com.uy>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:03:21 -0300 (UYT)
Subject: Hello From Mr Nicolas Abou Rjeily




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My Dear Good Friend,

my name is Nicolas Abou Rjeily ,a national of Lebanon sadad,i am working as an accountant general and head of the Auditing Dept of Bceao Bank Cote d`Ivoire.Already i have forwarded to you my international passports for your view.So i will be here insided the bank to back you up as the original next of kin to our late depositor Engr.Slim Helu. to Engr.Slim Helu , a National of your Mexico, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote D’ Ivoire.My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2008 in which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. Of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in, where the deceased has an account valued at about ($12 .3million US dollars). They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the account unserviceable and thereby send the funds to the bank treasury.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 2 years now, I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($12.3million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. In your reply mail, I want you to give me your full names, address, date of birth, telephone and fax numbers for proper communications.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation

Please Reply Me True this my altanative
email (anicolasabourjeily@gmail.com)

( My number Call Me urgent 00-225-069-543-91)

Nicolas Abou Rjeily


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