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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 George Cole <offilefile222@aol.com>
Reply-To: <info@officefiles.cf>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:21:41 -0500
Subject: Your Urgent Respond Is Needed. NEXT OF KIN.



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I am Mr George Cole. The manager Accounting / Audit Department of
CREDIT SWISS BANK TO ( UBS) UNION BANK OF LONDON. I contacted you as
regards to a business proposal that will be of an immense benefit to
both of us and the less privileged ones. Being the manager accounting /
audit department Greater LONDON Regional office I discovered a sum of
USD$71,600,000 Million,( Seventy One Million, Six Hundred Thousand
Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customers Late
Mr. Moses Saba Masri. He was a Jewish business mogul from Mexico that
died on a helicopter crash years ago. Mr. Saba was 47-years-old when
both his wife, his only son Avraham (Albert) and his daughter-in-law
died in a helicopter crash. You can get more information's as regards
to the crash and the death of our late customer Mr. Moses Saba on the
website address below.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3832556,00.html?

The choice of contacting you aroused from the geographical nature of
where you live particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction
and the confidentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of
the relatives to come-up for the claim of the inheritance fund but
unfortunately all efforts has being void. I personally have been
unsuccessful in locating neither the relatives nor any next of kin to
Mr. Saba. On this regards, I seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin and as beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of
this account valued at USD$71,600,000 Million,,, can be paid to your
Account.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages 60% to me and 40%
to you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to
back up this claim we are about to make. All I need is to upload your
names to the documents and legalize at the LONDON High Court in order to
prove you the legitimate beneficiary. All I require now is your honest
co-operation; confidentiality and trust to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee you 100 % success and that this
business transaction will be executed under the ambit of law and will
also protect you from any breach of the contract. Please provide me the
following as we have 14 working days to run it through:

1. Your full name..........
2. Telephone number..........
3. Contact address...............
4. Age............................
5. Gender.....................
6. Occupation.............

Please on your confirmation of this message and indicating your
interest I will furnish you with more information's. Contact me back
Your assent to this e-mail and business proposal will be highly
appreciated.

Regards,
Mr George Cole.
Managing Accounting

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