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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: mrcharles_bego8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:43:30 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT?=

Mr. Charles Bego.
18 Voula Raymond
Opps. Natal Circus
Johannesburg,
SOUTH AFRICA.
Contact me it my private Email Address{mrcharles_bego2001@myway.com}
Or{mrcharles234bego@yahoo.co.in}

RE: TRANSFER OF [$ 39,500.000.00 USD]
THIRTY NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS]

Dear Sir,

We want to transfer to overseas ($$ 39,500.000.00 USD) Thirty nine million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa,
I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to
set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty
a/c can serve to receive this funds quitely.

I am Mr. Charles Bego, the accountant personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra
F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a
plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston.


Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he
died last year without having any beneficiary to his assets including his
account here in South Africa which he opened in a prime bank in the year
2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement
of his companybefore his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 39,500,000.00)Thirty Nine Million Five Hundred
Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting
you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I
want to first transfer $9,500.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand
USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer
the remaining (30M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved
to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and
foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the
a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only
be approved into a foreign a/c.

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.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount,
55% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my email or you call me on
+871-763-649-685, +874-763-649-685,+870-763-649-685, it is a satelite phone
when dailing do not add South African code no, only dail your country dail
out code no and then start any of the above nos. with 87.

Sincerely,
Mr. Charles Bego.






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