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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: "Mr Robin Hans Clark" <robinhans44@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: robinhansclark@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:40:32 +0100
Subject: From: Mr Robin Clark

From: Mr Robin Clark
Fountain Trust Bank
Third Floor/Congress House
23-28 Great Russell St,
Enugu

( Urgent Funds Remittance Transaction)
Re: Remittance of (US$ 21,320.00m) Twenty one Million three hundred and twenty
thousand Dollars into your account.

Dear Friend,
Greetings
Iam contacting you based on my personal interest to develop a mutual business
relationship with you in your country,lam the Chairman Audit committee of
my bank (Fountain Trust Bank ). l wish to transfer the above stated sum
into your bank account and l want to ask you if you are not capable to handle
such a transaction, you can solicit for a reliable partner whom is close
to you who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account
or to set up a new bank account immediately to receive this money, even an
empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down now or in the future.

During the course of My auditing, l discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank 1990 and since 1993 till date no body has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in the records l discovered
that the owner of the account died without a (Heirs/ next of kin) or (WILL)
hence the money is floating and if l do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is a foreigner,
a great Oil merchant and industrialist who works with (National Petroleum
Co. Plc) and an Iraqi citizen and he died since 1993. No other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning this transaction,this account
has no next of kin and my intersive investigation proves that until his death
he was the Executive director of (National Petroleum Co. Plc .)

lam only conatcting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved
to a person here in this bank because the money is in Us dollars and the
former owner of the account is a foreigner too, and the money can only be
approved into a foregin account.

However, We will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together before the
first remittance into your account to assure me that you will not hold my
share. lam revealing this you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this transaction, you are the first and only person whom l have
introduce this business to you, so please reply urgently and send also your
private phone and fax numberif any including the bank account details where
this fund will be transferred into. l need your full co-opreation to make
this transaction work fine because the management of this bank is ready to
issue an approval to any foreigner with correct informations of this account,
which l will give to you upon your interest to do this business with me.
I assure you for the security and safety of this business, all the legal
document will be obtained in your name as the beneficiary and next of kin
to the late beneficiary for easy remittance into your account.
At the conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 25% of the
total sum and all expenses will be taken care by a mapped percentage from
the principle sum after the remittance confirmation into your account.

I urgently look foward for your Response.

May God bless you.
Best Regards
Mr Robin Clark





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