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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: vindavis22@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:19:19 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=20NEEDED?=

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.vinol davison. I work with the Barclays Bank of London as an account
officer in the Treasury/Credit Control Unit. I came to know you in private
search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction,
which involve the transfer of a huge sum of money into a foriegn account
requiring maximum confidence.

THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSITION/TRANSACTION:


A foreigner by name Engineer Lungi Bilger who is a marine engineer by profession,
until his death some times ago, does his banking transaction with us at
Barclays Bank, and had a closing balance as at the end of January 2002,
which is worth £5,500,000.00 pounds ( five million five hundred thousand
British pound sterling). I was his personal account officer and since he
deposited this money with us in the year 2002, a single paying or withdrawal
was never made by him. We were instructed by my late client that the money
be kept and secured in a security and finance firm because it was less expensive
to keep and secure the funds in the security. This was done for him according
to his instructions.

Surprisingly, for three years since this money was kept in the security
and finance firm nothing has been heard from him, not until I was informed
about his death with evidence when I decided to call to the number he once
gave to me, of which several attempts has been made earlier but all was
in vain. Our bank now expected his Next of Kin to come forward as a sole
beneficiary to his assets with the bank. As his personal account officer
valuable efforts has been made by me for more than one year to get in touch
with any of my late client family or relatives without any success.

It is because of the percieved impossibility of being able to locate any
of my late client Next of Kin(He had no wife, Children or Relative that
is known to me ).Based on this, I secretly seek advice from a fellow colleague
who has being in banking for about 14 years now about this issue of my late
client , he made me understand that things like this do happen and at the
end of the day the chairman and board of directors of the bank will declare
the funds as ''Unclaimed'' and subsequently divert it for thier personal
use. In order to avert this negetive development,I now seek your permission
to have you stand as the Next of Kin to my late client, so that the funds
will be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's Next of
Kin

As soon as I recieve an acknowledgement of your acceptance, I will furnish
you with the necessary modalities of the transaction. I assure you that
this transcaction is 100% risk free, When this business is completed and
the funds is already in your account,the money will be shared on a 50-50
basis

Regards.
Mr vinol davison
EMAIL:vindavis22@zipmail.com.br



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