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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: "Mr. Randy" <randymour039@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: randy01@ukrpost.com.ua
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:46:41 +0200
Subject: From: Mr.Randy Mour...........call me

From: Mr.Randy Mour.

# 27 Mulayo Building,
Meintjies Sunnyside Streets,
Arcadia, Pretoria,
South Africa.

.......................................................
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 126,000.000.00 USD}
{ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)

Dear Sir / Madam,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 126,000.000.00 USD) One hundred and
Twenty six 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.

My name is Mr.Randy Mour, and I work in the International operation
department in a Local Bank
here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a BAL.
of $ 126,000.000.00 USD (One hundred and Twenty Six million United States
Dollars) on further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the
account holder has long since passed away (dead) leaving no beneficiary to
the account 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.
Ahmed Tariq , a foreigner, and a sailor, and he died, since 1998. 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 Ahmed Tariq until his death was the manager Tariq Coy.(pty). SA.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty six million [$26,000.000] upon
successful transaction
without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of
the remaining rest amount to your account.

The amount involved is (USD 126M) One hundred and Twenty Six million United
States Dollars, only I want to first transfer $26,000.000 [Twenty Six
million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account
abroad before the rest, 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. Ahmed Tariq is a foreigner too, [and the
money can only be pproved into a foreign a/c.

However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got your
contact address from my secretary who operates computer, I am revealing this
to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business,
you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this
business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step
to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including
the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.

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.

I 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 at least two days ahead of the money going into the 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.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.

You can call me on any of those satelite nos: +874-763593730 OR
+873-763593950, When calling do not add South African country code because
it's a satelite phone, only add your country's dial code and dial direct.

I look forward to hear from you soon.

May God bless you.
Sincerely,

Mr.Randy Mour.

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