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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: "martins duke" <mart_duke1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mart_duke1@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:50:46 +0000
Subject: Thank YOU



Mr Martins Duke.
Zennith Bank Ltd,
Lagos,Nigeria,
Tele:234-8033248133
Altanetive email
address(mart_duke1@uymail.com)

Dear Partner, (TOP SECRET)

How are you doing with your family? I presume that all is Well with you .My
name is Mr Martins Duke, I am the manager of audit and accounting department
at the foreign unit of our bank.I got your contact from the international
directory when i was Looking for a foreigner who will assist me to achieve a
great success business that will yeild us life success. before i wrote you,i
prayed that you will be a honest and reliable person whom i can work with to
achieve this deal of ourlife.

From my section in the bank, I discovered an abandoned sum of TWENTY TWO
MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22.3m) that belongs
to one of our customer who died along with his entire famillies,on 25TH
JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] with the whole passengers
aboard.The name of the deceased man was (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from
Munich,Germany.You have to understand that i come acrossed this huge amount
of money when i was arranging the departmental customers file to submit to
the bank management for the annual audit of the year.

Since the bank got information about the death of the deceased man, the bank
have been expecting his next of kin to apply and claim his money because the
bank cannot release the fund unless a person from any foreign countries
apply for the transfer of the fund as the next
of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines
but unfortunately i learnt through investigations that all his supposed next
of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that you will
apply for the bank will release the money to you as the
next of kin or relation for safety and subsequent sharing since nobody is
coming for it.

For us to achieve this businesss immediately,the percentage ratio for
sharing the fund when the bank release the fund for you must be arranged So
i accept that thirty one percent of the fund(31%) will be for you as a
foreigner for the provision of any bank account where the bank will transfer
the money into including other of your particiaption during the process of
the transfer,Sixty percent (60%) will be for me as the person who explores
the business,Four percent of the fund (4%) will be for the expenses which
may come forth during the transfer of the fund, while 5% will be shared to
the helpless peoples around us in the world such as,motherless
babies,charity
homes,disable peoples and so on.

Thereafter I will visit your country for sharing the money according to the
percentages indicated above.So for the immediate transfer of this fund into
your bank account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only
existening next of kin to the deceased customer by indicating in the
application the bank account formation where you will request the bank to
transfer the fund into.

So if you accept to help me in other to achieve this great business,i will
send to you through email or by fax an application form of claim which you
will fill with your account information and send to the bank for the
transaction to start immediately.

Please i would like you to know the following information.(1.) This business
is HUNDRED PERCENT FREE FROM RISK.(2.)You will not face any questions
because the application will bear the brief information of the deceased
which the bank may like to know.(3.) If you will follow my instruction and
directives,this transaction will be completed within a short period of
time.(4.)You should keep this business CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET untill the
fund get transfered into your account.

N.B.In other to proceed and beleive me honestly over this transaction, i
would like you to try and go through this (wedsite) below and come back to
me as soon as you are through with it so that
we should proceed the effect of this transaction.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europ

Mr Martins Duke.


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