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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: alfred.kone@standardcharterbk.com
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Pls Read this mail attentively and get back to me ASAP

Good Morning My Dear,

How are you today? Please do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does
not meet your personal ethic. Pls be informed that I am One of the
Managing Directors with Standard Chartered Bank-Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
- West Africa and I am contacting you concerning a very delicate and
sensitive issue that can change our lives for Good.

Please listen - In the year 2006/2007 I handle all our Investor's capital
Project Funds which enables me to divert 1.2 Percent of our Investors
Excess Return Capital Funds and secure it in our Magellan Trust Funds
Account whereby anyone with a surname as you can be presented to claim the
funds as the beneficiary, I believe you have heard or read about bank deal
and you do not know how it works probably because you are not a banker, be
inform that this is how it work and why allots of bankers now control the
business arena and have lucrative businesses worth millions of dollars
around the world. On this note, the total sum of $18.7 Million Dollars was
diverted representing the 1.2 Percent of our Investors Excess Return
Capital Funds. I know you might not really understand my point so let me
be more explicit.

I need a reliable and trustworthy person like your humble self that share
the surname as the name I used in securing the money in our Magellan Trust
Funds Account to work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds
as mentioned above and share it. There is no risk attached and the funds
in question can never be dictated or traced because it is just a pinch
from the Investors Return Capital Funds that runs into hundreds of
millions of dollars, the
programme has long been finalized and the case closed but the funds I
diverted
remain unclaim. Our sharing ratio is 60:40. (60 for me 40 for you)

If you see this mail as a scam, spam or hoax - delete it and don't bother
to repy or discuss this matter further but If you are interested, please
reply and send your direct telephone numbers to me for a smooth discussion
of this transaction for further details. I need this project finalize and
the money remitted into your bank account for us to share as soon as
possible. This is a clean and straight forward bank deal, it is safe and
risk-free, as I have taken care of all necessary steps to ensure a
hitch-free movement of the funds. May God bless you as I look forward in
hearing from you soonest.

Yours Sincerely,

Standard Chartered Bank (CI)
Mr. Alfred Kone
Directeur Général dé Invést.
Plateau, près de l'hôtel Tiama
23 Boul. de la République, Plateau
17 BP 1141 Abidjan 17 Côte d'Ivoire
Tél: 225 20303201/20303232
Mobile: 225 04492837
Fax: 225 20303212
Email: alfred.kone@standardcharterbk.com
Internet : http://www.standardchartered.com

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