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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: mike tonga <miketonga10@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT



phone_27-83-9899-826

Please contact me urgent

Dear Ceo,

My name is Mr Tonga Mike,I am the operational manager in

account management section incharge of credit and

foreign bills of one of the prime banks here in South

Africa. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer

of my bank who perished with his whole families on

25TH JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH [ Flight AF4590 ]

with the whole passengers aboard.

There is an account opened in this bank in 1998 by

this great late INDUSTRIALIST who died without a

written or oral WILL attatched to the account. Since

his death , I personally has watched with keen

interest to see the next of kin but all has proved

abortive as no one has come to claim his funds and no

other person knows about this account or anything

concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and

until his death he was the manager of his company.

The total amount involved is 106,000,000.00 USD.[ One

hundred and six million United States Dollar ]. We

wish to start the first transfer with

$6,000,000.00[Six million] and open successful

transaction without any disappointment from your side,

we shall re-apply for the transfer of the remaining

balance to your account.

I have secretly discussed this matter with the general

manager of the bank who I must involve in order to

have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to

any foreign bank account which you are going to

nominate. On this note, I decided to seek for a

reliable foreigner who will act as the foreign

beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing

his/her bank account where the fund will be

transferred for immediate investment on any viable

project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to

stay more than six years without claim hence the money

will be recalled to the government treasury as

unclaimed after this long period of domancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal

search to see if you can assist by providing your safe

bank account for the transfer or find a reliable

person who will be capable of receiving such amount in

his or her personal account.At the conclussion of the

transfer 65% of the fund will be for me, I will give

you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity

both in Africa and in your country while the remaining

5% will be set aside to settle expenses both parties

might incure during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a

detailed information about the transaction.I will not

fail to bring to your notice that this business is

100% risk and trouble free and that you should not

entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer

can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you

apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from

the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail

or you can call me or fax me. You should also include

your private fax and phone numbers for easy and safe

communication.

PHONE:

FAX:

PRIVATE EMAIL:

Respectfully yours,



Mr Tonga Mike




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