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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: raphealakata@terra.com.mx
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:00:56 +0200
Subject: OPPORTUNITY

FROM THE DESK OF DR.RAPHEAL AKATA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE



CONFIDENTIAL

Dear,

With due respect and humility, I write to you this proposal.I am the manager
of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale
du Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive information about you
through one of my friends who run a consultancy firm in your country. He
assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business
opportunity.


In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15.5m (fifteen million
five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november 1997
in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims.


It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department
now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we don,t want this money to
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. According to our Banking policies
and guideline here which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed
after Eight years, the money will automatically be transfered into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an ivoirian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be for reimbursement of
any expenses incured during the curse of the transaction and 65 % would
be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore
to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating
your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax
number for easier and effective communication and location where the money
will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact
me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

DR. RAPHEAL AKATA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER, FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.

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