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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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Fraud email example:

From: "ALBERTO FREDRICK" <alberto_fredrick@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: yaro.madaki@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 05:58:15 -0600
Subject: Strictly Confidential

From Yaro Adimi Madaki.
email:(yaro.madaki@yahoo.co.uk).
The Manager of Audit & Account Department,
Arabian InternationalBank.
Dubai-UAE.



I must apologise for berging this message into your mailbox without a formal
introduction of myself to you. Actually, I got your mailbox in the web while
trying to get a good and capable business person in your country for both
business and investment purposes. Let me start by introducing myself; I am
Mr.Yaro Adimi Madaki, The Manager of Audit & Account Department with the
Arabian International Bank, Dubai-UAE.
With due respect, i decided to contact you over this business financial
transaction worth the sum of SEVENTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US
DOLLARS ( US$17.5M ) in other to entrust this fund into your bank
account,though it is presently in a security outfit in Spain.

This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the the late King FAHD of Saudi
Arabia.It was meant for the assistance of the Tsunami victims and was paid
in as a `trustee guarranteed` without a substantive beneficiary and
entrusted to his fund foundation here in Dubai. I was very fortunate to
discover the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned
customers files of 2003-2005 in other to submit to the bank managements
accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking financial
policy,it was obviously indicated and signed lawfully that if such money
remains unclaimed after two years without somebody applying for the claiming
the fund as the next of kin,the money will be transferred into the Bank
Treasury as an unclaimed and abadoned fund.

With the agreement of senior managers and directors,we have agreed to seek
assistance of a non-resident of Spain to make claims of this funds from
where it is deposit and this means that you should be able to travel to
Spain before you will be qualified for this assistance.
Our legal officer,Mr.George M. Ibru (ibrulawchambers@excite.com) or call
him, he will assist you in all the documentation requirements.So the request
of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen
of Spain cannot come forward to claim the fund since the law does not permit
an indigene to claim such fund Since the real beneficary of the fund is dead
and was a foreigner, the bank are expecting the next of kin or the relation
to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but
unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out that
there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.
Therefore I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account
details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately the fund
is transferred into your account ,i will share the fund according to the
percentage indicated below.65% of the total fund will be for us while 30%
will be for you in provision of a Bank account and standing in for this
claims and the remaining. (5%) will be for unexpected expenses which may
occur during the transfer processing including transport,travelling and
communication.

Thereafter you will help us to visit your country for sharing the money
according to the percentage indicated above.And for the immediate transfer
of this fund into your bank account as arranged, you must apply first to the
bank as the only existing next of kin to the deceased customer and after
approval which will take place immediately as you applied, the transfer of
the fund into your nominated bank account will proceed. Please note that you
should keep this business secret until you confirm the transfer into the
bank account which you will provide. And there is NO RISK in this business.
The bank will forward to you all necessary documents related to the transfer
and which will prove that you make a legal claim of inheritance. Note that
you may be required to travel to Switzerland or Spain for the signing of
some docuiments of claims.

I want you to promise me that you will be capable, honest and reliable to
avoid cheating us in this business. If you are really sure of your
integerity, Reply immediatelly you receive this mail or call our legal
officer,Mr.James Gigatt for more detailed information on how the process to
transfer processing of these fund into your account will be.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.You can also mail
to the legal officer through his private mailbox.
Send all correspondence with the legal officer to me on my mailbox on
yaro.madaki@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Y.Adimi Madaki.
Private telephone:+971-502605219.

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