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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Rose Tunde" <rosetunde200@msn.com>
Reply-To: mrs_rosetunde200@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:12:58 +0000
Subject: CAN YOU HELP,

FROM:MRS,ROSE TUNDE.
AUDITING & ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT,
UNITED BANK OF AFRICA(U.B.A),
No 10 Amadu bello way
Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria.



I know that this letter may come to you as a
suprise. I got your
contact address from the Internet when I was
searching for a business
partner My name is MRS.ROSE TUNDE. I am the auditing
and accounting
Manager of united bank of africa (U.B.A) ,Victoria
Island Lagos,
Nigeria.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
USD$11.5 Million
(Eleven Million Five Hundred thousand US Dollar). In
an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer MR DAVID WESTON who died
along with his wife
and children in a plane crash in 2003 plane
crash.Since we got
information about his death,Please i will like you
view this website;
http://www.bromike.com/departed/egypt.html]

The bank have been expecting his next of kin to come
over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as the
next of kin or relation to the deceased, as
indicated in our
banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that
all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him in
the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided
to make this
business proposals to you and release the money to
you as next of kin
or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it because I don't want
the money to go into the
bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
if such money
remains unclaimed after five years, the money will
be transferred into the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is
necessary because our
late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot
stand as next of
kin to a foreigner. I have agreed that 30% of this
money will be for
you as foreigner partner in respect to the provision
of a foreign
account.10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and
60% would be for me, after which I shall visit your
country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as i
arranged,you will furnished me with a good receving
account detail
where the money will be transfered,your private tel
and fax number for
easy communication.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is 100%
hitch-free on both side. As all required arrangement
have been made for the
transfer.Please I would like you keep this
transaction
confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to
know that I am a
Bank official.

Trusting to hear from you immediately with this my
E-MAIL ADDRESS rosetunde200@msn.com


Yours Sincerely,
mrs.rose tunde


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