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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: "prince josey" <princejosey1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:48:32 +0000
Subject: THE DETAILS OF THIS TRANSACTION/URGENT CALL.

Dear Krauss,

Alleikum salam

Thanks for your immediate response and also your kindness to me towards this
transaction. I am here to protect your image and be giving you all the
fundamental informations about our late customer mr Hazim Ibrahim untill
this fund enters into your account.

What I want from you is to assure me of your capability of handling this
transfer with trust by giving me the following informations about yourself:

1) Your age
2) Your occupation

Base on this I will advise you to feel free all is well, I studied this
transaction very well before contacting you for assistance.

Well, having served this bank for so many years now and nearing my
retirement I deem it neccessary to utilise this opportunity of the present
unclaimed sum of money in the account sent inconjuction with the first
proposal I sent to you to help myself and my family after my retirement
through the investment I will establish in your country with my percentage
in the transaction.

There is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our
deceased customer and owner of the account number NADB4934109, with the
following reasons:

(a) Before the death of our deceased customer his true next of kin was not
indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy
and confidenciality of the transactions which our late customer transacted
with the verious governments in West Africa.

(b)Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the
bank,it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to
verify the next of kin as well as the true heritier of the fund.

(c)And for the above reasons the managements of the bank authorised me
officialy as the executive manager,Audit/Exchange Department of the bank to
verify the next of kin to our deceased customer. Therefore, the bank will
always abide by my official directions through the official authorisation
bestowed on me. And for this reasons you have nothing to fear as your
interest and identity will be legally protected.

More so,the only informations required from you by the bank is your banking
datas as contained in the official application which I will give you to
send to our bank after your immediate response because the receipt of your
application is the commencement of the official process of this transaction.

Now I will like to use this opportunity to tell you the detail informations
concerning our deceased customer. The deceased account holder with our bank
was Mr. Hazim Ibrahim, FROM Egypt National who naturalised here in Burkina
faso for (16) years. He held account number NADB4934109, ROUTING No :
91002211 with our bank.this client was among the victims of EGYPT AIR
BOEING 767 FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in U.S with his
family at as I stated in my first mail. Since his death, this account has
been dormant and nobody has applied to our bank for the release of this fund
to him or her as the next of kin.

As the Audit and Exchange Manager of this bank, I have studied this
transaction very carefully and I have noted that there are no risks
involved. I am here to protect all your interests in this transaction until
this money hits your account. Since I am here I shall be giving you all
the developmental informations from the bank as soon as this transaction
commences.

I know that you will not disappoint me when this money enters your account,
I have all my hope in this transaction because I shall soon go on
retirement. I am a simple banker whose credibility is still intact and with
my maturity and understanding, I promise to give you the best co-operation.
We must hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and the government
shall not claim and inherit this money because it has over-stayed.

After the bank have approve your application as next of kin to our late
customer I will fly down your country for investment with my own share,but I
will advise you to keep it as a top sercet because no body again new about
this tranaction except you and I.

For more informations you can contact me on phone (00226 70 242 396) so that
we can talk.

Thanks,

Prince

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