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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: pro_alexandraisaac@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:19:58 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HOPE=20TO=20HEAR=20FROM=20YOU?=


FROM Prof ALEXANDRA ISAAC
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
CONTINENTAL BANK,
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC

DEAREST,

It is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am Prof Alexandra,
the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of Continental Bank
in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I and my colleagues deem it fit to contact you
regarding to a transaction that will favour both of us at the end, and i
got your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable person to help
me claim the fund in question.

We discovered the sum of Thirty million ,Five hundred thousand United States
Dollars (USD30.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund
has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the account owner Late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev a Russian
big
time Oil dealer, who unfortunately lost his life in the Yak-40 jetliner
on March 9, 2000. You will read
more news about the crash on visiting these site; http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml
and http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml.I have kept a close
monitoring of the account since then and nobody has come forward to claim
the money as next of kin to the late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev meaning that no one
is aware of the account. That is the reason of contacting you as a foreigner
to work with me and provide an account and claim this money as the
next of kin to the deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin
who wishes to speed up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If
the over due fund if not claimed by the end of next quarter, the government
of the Federal Republic of Benin will take over the ownership of the fund
in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government
to take over the ownership of this money, that is why I contacted you for
us to do the deal together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide
next of kin to the deceased whose name is Mr. Ziya Bazhayev

If you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 30% of
the total sum, while I and my colleagues involved will take 70% of the total
sum. Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect
the transfer within eight working days.

Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra responsibi
lities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and normally you will
be
required to maintain absolute information and absolute secrecy throughout
the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a third party
might jeopardise the entire transaction.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project
as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end. please You may contact
me through my private email: or phone

+229 -96-87-70
BEST REGARDS,
PROF. Alexadra Isaac



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