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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!

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From: "Alan Romanis" <adtgen@msn.com>
Reply-To: alromanis@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:06:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Relocation and Partnership


Dear friend,
 
Thanks for your e-mail and May i firstly assure you there are no risk involved in our arrangements here as we have carefully tightened up loose ends, Just keep all information about this strictly confidential so that it will be possible. I want to let you know we have at our end put necessary arrangements in place for immediate and hitch free conclusion of this business awaiting your full co-operation.
 
This business which i brought to you is real and pure inheritance that has being in dormant account for years and non of deceased relative have ever come arround for claim of these funds, I am only revealing this business to you as a secret and i am not intending to betray you rather to create everlasting business relationship  between both parties.
I believe we can honestly do business together with a clear terms of arrangement for protection of our interests. Be informed we are now putting together a  working agreement which copies are going to be faxed to you by tomorrow or next for perusal and signing.As soon as the working agreement is signed and returned to us, We shall proceed with necessary arrangements for immediate and successful release of these funds in your name. I do not think i will gain anything or make any profit from wasting my time and money on communicating with you if i am not 100%sure of this venture ,but certainly there are good and bad business people world over, let me assure you on the reality of my proposition which i will prove to you soonest with your full co-operation.

I am sure you can appreciate the importance of a working agreement in a business transaction of this magnitude, atleast for protection of both parties interests.
What i require from you basically to establish that you are the next of kin are as follows:
1.Your full name/occupation/resident address.
2.Your marital status and age.
3.A copy of your passport or drivers licence.
4.Most importantly your private phone number and fax for more briefing and easy sending of neccessary document concerning this transaction.All this requirement i will use it to register you as the beneficiary of the fund and filling forms that will back you as the beneficiary.
 
 I am assuring you again that this business is 100% guaranteed, it is safe, legal and there will be complete documents of transaction to show the source and origin of the money going into your a/c. This is very important to avoid any problem  My name is Mr. Alan Romanis. The name of my bank is First National Bank  Ltd. (FNB)Johannesburg branch.I am a proffesional Accountant and my position is the manager/Chief Auditor American {equivalent} of (C.P.A} certified public Accountant. I have been in the field for over 18 years and I am 48 years old married with 4 children 2 girls and 2 boys I am also from a christain home and by the Nature of our tradition and being the first born of my Father, I will occupy my Father's traditional Throne chair after he passes on, and being the traditional Chief of our community and as the heir apparent to the Royal Throne chair I can never, never do anything, that will tarnish your image or the image of the Great Cesthwayo family, the birth place and traditional home of Chaka the Zulu the legend. Well you can undertstand more about our family in a book called "Africa who is who" or from the book called "the makers of moderm Africa"

However I am not doing this business because of the large amount that is involved but rather because it's safe and very safe for both of us, I will be very happy to welcome you in my Father's Royal palace when once you touch your feet in the soil of South Africa and after the transfer from here, we will go back together to your country ,me and you  and the Bank man our insider in the Bank who is ready now to make everything possible for us in the Bank. The need for our meeting can not  be overemphasized. To make millions any where in the world is not an easy assignment. We need to know each other so that we can have solid trust for one another.United we stand and divided we fall hence the reason for you to come here.
When you arrive here i will take you to the bank to sign the payment vouchers and also open an account where the money will be transferred so that we can withdraw some here to take care of all espenses before transfering to your account abroad.
 
Considering your positive responses and in my anticipation of a strong and solid cooperation from your side in this business, infact I am very much interested to know whether you will be capable to do this business with me in full confidence trusting that you will never let me down in future.

Please be sure that everything is very legal and will work out fine  as long as we follow the normal proceedures of inheritance. So if you are really serious and have the facilities for effective communications,ability to set up a new A/C under short notice,or even an empty A/C without any money in it provided that the A/C can receive money is still ok.(2) you must have a valid international passport or traveling documents . This business will be completed within 7 banking days from the date of the receipt of your A/C details and subsequent approvals from the Foreign Exchange control division.
 
NOTE: You should not tell your bank that money is coming  until I finish processing of all documents to show your bank that this money is clean money from genuine source and to avoid your bank asking you early questions that you may not be able to answer at the moment,so you should not alert them now,pls.take note. After the processing of all Foreign Payment documents,and when the money is ready to be paid into your A/C,after the final Approval in your favour by the bank you will be required to come down to South Africa in person or to go to any of our Foreign Payment Offices to sign the Foreign Payment vouchers preceding telegraphic TT to your A/C. At the Foreign Payment Office you be required to fill the payment Order chart specifying schedule of payments to beneficiaries A/C.
 Please note that that this opportunity can hardly come my way again in my life time, so I have planned everything very well with an insider in the bank so be rest assured that everything will work out fine.
 
The main reason why I contacted you for this business is because the original operator of the A/C is a foreigner and this money can only be approved into a foreign beneficiaries A/C only, frankly speaking from the bottom of my heart my fear now is the security of  this money in your custody once transferred into your A/C because I don't know you before nor your capability and facilities to handle this large amount,but I now trusting you by your words and trusting God that you will never let me down, I really want to know more of you and I will want you to keep it very confidential at all times because it is large amount and be sure that I will get all the neccessary documents to avoid any mistake and we should be maintaining constant communications between us and you should note that this business should take precedence over any other business for the mean time.
 
Now I need the A/C information as below and Telephone Numbers.both office and at home as a need may arise either to call you in the day or night to brief you on the progress as occasion warrants.
Bank Name..........
Address of the Bank...........
A/C No..........
Swift code................
A/C Name..............
Finally you have to be following instructions which I will be getting from our insider in the bank who  is the main Key to the success of this Business.Pls respond without much questions until we see face to face because 'too many questions can sink a ship' Again,it's very neccessary that we have a heart to heart discussions regarding the onward funds  transfer.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
 
Please send a comprehensive reply including when you will visit us here for implementation. Regards
 
Alan Romanis.
>From: "gkln_ebay@yahoo.de" <gkln_ebay@yahoo.de>
>To: adtgen@msn.com
>Subject: Re: Relocation and Partnership
>Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:25:30 +0200 (CEST)
>
>Yes. Definitely interested in helping out. How exactly wil this work, what help do you need.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Romanis" <adtgen@msn.com>
>To: <alanromanis1414@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Monday, 18 April, 2005 19:15
>Subject: Relocation and Partnership
>
>
>
> > Dear Friend,
> >
> > This letter might surprise you because; we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one day that you get know  somebody either in physical or through correspondence. We want to  transfer to overseas ($ 85,000.000.00 USD)Eighty five million United States Dollars) from a 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 money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important  business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me  down either now or in future.
> >
> > I am Dr. Alan Romanis , I am an Auditor of a Bank in Africa, during the course of my auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir]hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out Urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
> >
> > The owner of this account is Mr. Antonio Diaz Leon, a foreigner and he died, since 2001. And no other person knows about this account or any thing Concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Mr. Antonio Diaz Leon until his death was the manager Allied Group of Companies.
> >
> > We will start the first transfer with Fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account. 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.Antonio Diaz Leon is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
> >
> > However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together . Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. Or you will appoint an Attorney here who will represent you if you are not able to come to Africa. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.
> >
> > Because the aragement 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 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 atleast two days ahead of the money going into t he 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. I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address or my phone and fax numbers above.
> >
> > We have concluded to give you 30% of the whole amount, and 10% for any expences and phone bills on this transaction. While the remaining 60% will be for me and my partners . You are free to tell me your mind your mind or you can ask me any question that you feel.God be with you.
> >
> > Yours Truly,
> >
> > ALAN ROMANIS
> >
> >
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