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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: "Danny crane Meyiwa." <onuralkan@silter-tr.com>
Reply-To: danny.crane00@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:20:39 +0100
Subject: Hello My Good Friend,


Dearest Friend,

I am Mr. Danny crane Meyiwa, I want to seek your assistance after my
discovery during auditing in my bank as

I'm the manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department
in a DIAMOND BANK TOGO.

In my department we discovered a sum of $41.300.000 million in an account
that belonged to one of our foreign

customer. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no response.

After some months, we sent a reminder and finally discovered that our
customer died from an automobile

accident. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a
will and all attempts to trace his

next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the deceased
person did not declare any next of

kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my
department to make this business

proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and

subsequent disbursement, and you will be given 35% of the total amount,
60% will be for me, while 5% will be

for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of
transferring. after the transfer is made

to your country / account since nobody is coming for it and we don't want
this money to go into the Bank

treasury as unclaimed bills.

We will conclude this operation within 21 banking days based on the amount
of co-operation you will

contribute.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty six million [$26,000.000]
upon successful transaction without

any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the
remaining amount to your account.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.Because the
management is ready to approve this payment

to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will
give to you, upon your positive

response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up
with instruction of a key bank

official who is deeply involved with me in this business.

I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down.
With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer
this money to any foreigner's

reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will
be intact pending our physical

arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all
documents of transaction immediately

we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build
confidence, you can come immediately to

discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in
your presence and three of us will

fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the
account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive

this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain
all legal approvals for onward

transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the
relevant ministries and foreign

exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5%

will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process
of transferring.

Thank you for your understanding as i await your urgent response to me
give you more details don't forget to

give me those information below before we can go ahead in this
business/project.


Your private telephone number


Your private E-mail address


Your profession


Your country


Your age


Yours faithfully,


Danny crane Meyiwa.


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