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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: jjaku@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 23:49:03 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?RE=3A=20Mr=2E=20O=2E=20M=2E=20DeBari?=

DR. (MRS.) JANETH JOYCE AKUBUEZE.
PRINCIPAL INTERNAL AUDITOR.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSE
12A OZUMBA MBADIWE STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND-LAGOS

Tel: (00 234) (01) 2329061
Fax: (00 234) (01) 2028169.

Greetings to you my dear friend,

I am Dr. (Mrs.) Janeth Joyce Akubueze, the internal auditor of ADB Lagos
centre. I am making this contact in connections of one of our deceased customer
Mr. O. M. DeBari, who is a national
of your country. Investigations shows that he and his entire family were
killed in a mutiny carried out by the LURDS rebel in the wake of public
unrest last two years in Liberia when the above named rebel group luanched
an offencive to dethrone the former president of that country (President
Charles Taylor), who is now exiled in Calabar-Nigeria. I came to meet this
gentleman
personally while I was still working with the ADB Monrovia Centre before
the large scale war broke out in that country.

As normalcy has returned to that country and normal business taking its
proper shape, I and my team in the audit section were assigned to take stock
of the extent of damage of the BAnk's
fixed assets when the discovery was made of the tragic death of this customer
with his entire family. Further investigations revealed that this customer
has no record of any NEXT-OF-KIN who would have been contacted to come forward
for the claims of his account ballance valued USD18,625,000.00 (eighteen
million, six hundred and twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars only). However,
I have used my position to order for the deposit of this money in a prime
Security company in neighbouring Accra-Ghana pending this contact with you
to come forward as his next of kin since there is no other person or way
to claim this fund except through this contact.

My contacting you is based on the fact that you are from the same country
of origin with the above deceased customer and since it is technically impossible
for any of the bank staff to make direct claims of this money, it will be
ideal that we look for person(s) that may lay claims over this fund as the
NEXT-OF-KIN of the deceased customer so that formal claims of this fund
can be instituted for the bank's approvals. You are therefore
required to forward your particular so that payment recommendations approvals
be passed in your favour as the NEXT-OF-KIN of this man and you go for the
clearance after which we shall share the above amount in this ratio:

1. 35% to you for your contributions and efforts,

2. 50% will come to us here which we shall use to import
consumers goods into our country with your able assistance, while 10% shall
be given out as charity.

3. The remaining 5% will be set aside for any contingencies that may arise
in the course of carrying out this transaction.

May I assure you that since this discovery, a clearance check have been
made to your Embassy here to locate any of the extended
relatives of this customer, but proved unsuccessful. After several attempts,
I personally decided to see if I can trace any of his family member(s) over
the Internet but to no avail, hence
I contacted you. Please you are to assist in recieving this account Balance
left behind by this customer as this is the only way this money can be claimed
without the raising of eyebrows from official quarters since you coming
from the same country with this customer can be presented easily as his
NEXT - OF - KIN.

We have only ninety (90) days left to get this money claimed and disbursed
as ratio among ourselves else my office might be forced to declare this
information to the management of our bank as is our policy.

We have all necessary documents that can be used to back up any claim we
may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of your country's financial regulations. If you accept to work with
us in this proposal, please contact me through email address: jjaku@mighty.co.za
sending your detailed particulars which will enable us prepare the payment
voucher for this claims.

Please note that you should not contact me through the above fax and phone
numbers as it is very important that we maintain utmost
confidenciality in this transaction so as not to jeopardise its success.

I am awaiting your prompt response to this mail.

Yours Truly,

Dr. (Mrs.) Akubueze J.J.
ADB-Lagos Centre.




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