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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Steven=20John?= <steven_ng4141@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: steven_ng911@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:14:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Aw: From Steven John, I Need Your Help.


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: steven_ng4141@yahoo.de

Dearest,


I am Mr. Steven John,a manager in the Bills and Exchange at

the Foreign Remittance Department of one of the leading

banks in Ghana. I am writing this letter to ask for your

support and cooperation to carry out this business

opportunity in my department.


We discovered an abandoned sum of$12,500,000.00 (Twelve

Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only)

in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer

Mr.Paul Philip who died along with his entire family a wife

and two children in November 1999 in an auto crash.

Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his

next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as

the heir,because we cannot release the fund from his

account unless someone applies for claim as the

next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking

guidelines.Unfortunately, neither their family member nor

distant relative has everappeared to claim the said fund.It

is in our banking guideline that if none of the relatives

come up to claim this fund after 6years of the death of the

late customer,the fund will be regarded as an unclaimed

bill and will be transferred to the bank's treasury

account.


Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department

have agreed to make business with you and release the total

amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no

one came for it or discovered he maintained

account with our bank,otherwise the fund will be returned

to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.

We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated

thus;30 % for you as foreign partner,65 % for us the

officials in my department and 5 % for the settlement of

all local and foreign expences incurred by us and you

during t! he course of this business.


Upon the successful completion of th is transfer, I and one

of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our

share. It is from our 75% we intend to import Agricultural

Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund.


To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately

indicate your interest by a return e-mail with the

following information:


1)Your private telephone and fax number :

2.Your full name :

3, Your Occupation :


Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you and

give you the mordalities for the bank to approve you as the

next of kin.

Note also, this transaction must be kept because of its

nature.I look forward to receiving your prompt

response.


Please reply through this email address : steven_ng911@yahoo.es


Best Regards


Steven John

- Steven John


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