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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. Edward Mahle <info@mahle.com>
Reply-To: info@lakelp.com
Date: 06 Mar 2018 14:43:34 -0800
Subject: Greetings


Dear Friend,

I am Edward Mahle the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance department in United Bank, USA. Actually, I have a
very urgent & confidential Business Proposition for you & for our
overall mutual interest.

On the 6th of March 2001, our Customer, a Japanese National,
late Mrs. Hiromi Kono, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the USA
Government, deposited a valued amount of US$32Million in my
branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to her
forwarded address but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder, & finally we discovered from her contract employers
ExxonMobil, that Hiromi Kono, until her death years ago in a
ghastly terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from
Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into
the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 people on
board. All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their
lives. On further Investigation, I found out that she did not
leave a WILL and all attempts to trace her Next of kin were
Fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that late
Hiromi, did not declare any Next of kin in all her official
documents. This sum US$32Million is still floating in our bank
bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum
at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it.
According to the USA laws, at the expiration of 18years, the
money will revert to the Ownership of the USA Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is
that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin
of Late Hiromi Kono. This is simple. All I require is your honest
and co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. I will want you to
send to me on your return email the following information for the
transfer in your favor.

1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone.

I can send you my phone number if need be and we can communicate
via call or chat on Whatsapp.

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus:

1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 50% of the
transferable Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the
transferable Fund.

Most importantly, CONFIDENTAILITY as what I saw as the life wire
to the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be
emulated between you and me. You have to use this media to
promise me that you will not in anyway expose the content of this
transaction to anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-
Workers. I will also want you to send your reply to this email <
info@lakelp.com > as soon as you get this mail to enable us
discuss on the modalities and processes for success of this
transaction. Thanks for your Anticipated cooperation and
understanding.

I wait for your kind response.
Thanks And Remain blessed.
Edward M.

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