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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: "Ayo Richards" <rich1960@jeffedward.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:18:12 +0000
Subject: Awaiting your response......From Mr Ayo Richard

Ayo Richard
Managing Director,
Guaranty Trust Bank Limited, (Gambia)
Banjul,Gambia
Personal email:richy1960@tiscali.it

Good Day,

I crave Your indulgence to kindly attend to this mail in good faith as i do
not mean any disrespect approaching you through this medium,it is due to the
time constrain of this matter.

I am Ayo Richard Managing director of Guaranty Trust Bank Limited, (Gambia),
Banjul.I came to know about you in my search for a reliable and reputable
person/company to handle a confidential business transaction that requires
huge transfer of funds into an oversea account.

On June 6, 2005,a Foreign auditing firm named Deloitte and Co,was contracted
to audit the financial records of all the branches of my bank by the board
of directors of my bank.It was observed by this team of financial expert
that my branch financial records was in excess of $26.5(twenty six Million,
five hundred thousand Dollars).

Records indicated that this funds that were afloat in my branch resulted
from accrued interest of unclaim dividends of funds for over a period of
ten(10) years that were invested in unit trust by investors in shares of
companies quoted on Gambian stock exchange(GSE)in real
estate-investment,money market instrument(such as treasury bills),fixed
income investments,and goverment bonds issued by the apex bank of Gambia.

I am yet to brief the Directors of my bank about this unclaimed funds,My aim
is to transfer this funds into an oversea account and for this I seek your
assistance so that the proceeds of this unclaim dividends can be paid to
you, so that we can both share the money,60% to me and 40% to you.Can I
trust you on this?.

The board of directors of my bank if aware of this unclaim funds will adopt
a resolution that will see my branch forfeiting the money as an abandoned
fund.The directors will invoke the abandoned property decree of 1994 which
gives them the power to confiscate funds that are dicovered as unclaimed
funds.

I have no doubt in my mind that the directors will divert this funds into
their private accounts for their own interest under the excuse that i am
unable to look for a Beneficiary to make the claim,the money will be made
unserviceable and that means submitting the funds to the federal government
of my country and some to the bank management which is not their main
intention.Well I have reasoned very professionally and I can use my
professionall knowledge to move the funds out of my bank,this is legally
possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land.
Consequently,I seek your consent to provide a foreign account that will
receive this funds for safe-keeping pending when i meet with you for the
disbursement of the funds.

I am writing you because I cannot operate a foreign account due to the
conditions of my employment as a bank official.

The money will be moved out to any account in any part of the world that you
will provide for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via my email address and
Upon your response,I shall then provide you with more details that will help
you understand the transaction.

Be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of
us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in any viable
business that you will advise on within your country.

Awaiting your prompt response via my email above.

Best Regards,
Ayo Richard


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