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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: "Ancor3zx Dollanton" <ancor3zx@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bewithme6000@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:06:07 +0200
Subject: AWAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE.......

Dear,
Before I inform you of this,i will first, will like to introduce my
address to you including my self,
HOME ADDRESS:NO-15 BISHOP CLOSE OFF,
SYNCO SHEPHSTONE CHAKA SOUTH AFRICA.
BOX:1287 PORT SHEPHSTONE PRETORIA CHAKA,
SOUTH AFRICA.
MY NAME:Mr.Ancor Dollanton.
MY COUNTRY:SOUTH AFRICA.
OCCUPATION:ACCOUNTANT.
POSITION:AUDITOR GENERAL.
POSITION LEVEL/OFFICE LEVEL:15.
MARRIED STATUS:MARRIED WITH 5 ISSUES
MY AGE:54YRS

I am a professional Accountant I have been in the field for over 8years and
I am 54years old married with 5 children 2 girls and 3 boys I am also from a
Christian home and by the Nature of our tradition and being the first born
of my Father, I will occupy my Father's traditional Throne chair after he
passes on, and being the traditional Chief of our community and as the heir
apparent to the Royal Throne chair I can never, never do anything, that will
tarnish your image or the image of the Great Cesthwayo family, the birth
place and traditional home of Chaka the Zulu the legend, well you can
understand more about our family in a book called Africa who is who or from
the book called the makers of modern Africa, However I am not doing this
business because of the large amount that is involved but rather because
it's safe and very safe for both of us, I will be very happy to welcome you
in my Father's Royal palace when once you touch your feet in the soil of
South Africa and after the successful venture from here, we will go together
to your country,pls You should not entertain any fear for any reason because
I will not do anything that will hurt your feelings and I wouldn't like you
to do anything that will hurt my feeling too, rather the proceed of this
success will benefit both families from generation to generation as long as
you follow my key instructions that will be coming from good source.
I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred &Twenty five million
United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to an oversea
account.First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.
This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure
and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the
said amount into your safe account for unward investment.You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account
immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c 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 that you will never let me
down either now or in future. I am the personal account officer to the great
late INDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of the top banks here in South
Africa. The account was opened in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written
or oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again hence
the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this account is a foreigner and no
other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the
company.My investigation through the National immigration department proved
to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the
Republic of South Africa. The amount in this account is USD$125 Million (
One Hundred & Twenty five Million United States Dollars ) only.

As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this
fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a
foreigner is necessary because the management of the
bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give to you
immediately, if you are interested to do this business
with me.There is no risk in this business.
With my position and my personal contact with the
manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to
any account you can provide with assurance that this
money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty five
million [$25,000.000]. Upon successful transfer
without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of
$100 Million to your account. I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, but can only be
approved to any foreigner who has the correct
information of the account which I will provide for
you.
So you should provide me with your correct account
detail where you will like the fund to be transferred
or you can set up a new account for the transfer even
an empty account is ok.
The A/C Details have to be arranged as follows,
BANK NAME:............
BANK ADDRESSE:........
BANK A/ NO:...........
BENEFICIARY NAME:.....
A/C ROUTING NO/SWIFT CODE:.
AND YOUR PRIVTAE TELEPHONE NO:..

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any
expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business
and the remaining 60% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon
your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into
your account I will then start the processing of the
transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.
Contact me urgently via telephone or email for further
details.

Yours In Business,
Mr.Ancor Dollanton.

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