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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: "Charles Vandi." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <turkuuallis@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 10:20:21 +0100
Subject: Dear Old-Time Partner.

Dear Partner,
 
Finally, I am glad that I could reach you today with this great news since we last communicated some years ago. I can't say If you did receive my two last emails to you before the regrettable closure of my old email account in 2012 which was how I lost your email address. Please, forgive me for not considering the option of travelling down to your country to give you statues of our unfinished transaction at the time. Note that the long silence wasn't wilful as I wanted to re-establish communication prior to my meeting you, but all efforts to retrieve your email address were to no avail.
 
It is with great pleasure to inform you that the partnership request I made to you over a Claim of certain sum of money some years ago was later transacted with a substitute partner. I never blamed you for any inaction whatsoever as I totally understood that your skepticism at that time was as a result of the menace of unsolicited cyberspace businesses from this region. However, I still appreciate your proficient efforts at the preliminary stage of the transaction that did propel the release of the funds to me.
 
If you would remember how we planned to invest in your country once the fund has been warehoused in your bank account. Today, I am happy to share with you that I have succeeded in building a successful business conglomerate from my little beginning as a mainstream oil marketer; In 2010, I became a joint owner of three Oil Blocks In two countries, Nigeria, and Carbon. Moreso, I am one of the contemporary licensed Diamond dealers in Africa, I also run other subsidiary investments among them are a Mining Industry, a Cocoa company/coffee exports from West Africa.
 
My conscience will not be satisfied until I have expressed a heartfelt gratitude to you for encouraging the setting up of the success tripod that I am operating on till date. I hereby plead with you to contact my Senior Special Assistant whom I have instructed to nominate you in the Figure 1-Category of my corporate philanthropy programme where you will be receiving $1,000,000,00 funding annually for a period of Five (5) years to support your organization. You may email him right away and direct further enquiries to him as he is looking forward to hearing from you.
 
Contact Name: M.j. Turku Ali.
 
Email:  turkualli450GL@outlook.com
 
Thanks for your understanding.
 
Charles Vandi.
 
Cheers!

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