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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: "Green pascal" <generalauditor@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:40:42 +0000
Subject: Attention: Ned Bank

ATTENTION:

I am Mr.pascal Green, a consulting auditor,Ned Bank plc,
Johannesburg-SouthAfrica.During the course of my auditing
work with my client bank late last year,I discovered an
account worth $8,400,000.00($8.4m) opened in the bank in
1998 by a Foreigner, a German, Late Mr.Andreas
Schranner,who died in the AF4590 plane crash. You can check
it out
here.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

It is because of the perceived possibility of not being
able to locate any next of kin known to the bank of Late
Mr. Andreas Schranner as all his family all perished in the
jet according to the immigration data available to the
bank, that his the main reason i have contacted you to
stand in as the next of kin.

I have secretly discussed this matter with a close
confident attorney whom I must involve in order to assist
us produce legal back-up documents which would substantiate
claims/position of next of kin and also enable us have a
smooth and successful transfer of the fund to any foreign
bank account which you are going to nominate.

All validating and authenticating documents to enable you
get this fund will be carefully worked out. We have secured
from the probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate
any of the deceased beneficiaries and that makes this
business 100% RiskFree.

The sharing ratio after completion of transfer will be
thus: 60% forme,35% for you and 5% for expensies.Kindly
indicate your interest to enable us,with your
assistance,move the fund to the banks offshore clearing
houses in Europe. Please note that for the purposes of
confidentiality, all further correspondence should be
through my Personal email:pascalgreen022@teenmail.co.za


Finally you are not expected to travel down to south Africa
your presence will only be required at the offshore payment
center in europe notably italy or spain because we
intend transfering the funds to our oversea affiliate
office for easy acess and to save you the stress of comming
down to South Africa.

Accept my warm regards as I await your response.
Sincerely,
Pascal Green

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