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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: "ahmed gidai" <gidai_mamed2003@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:21:43 +0000
Subject: Mutual trust !!!

FROM THE DESK OF MR.AHMED GIDAI
BANQUE SANS FRONTIERE
Avenues des Nîmes Grunitzky,
Telex: 7282 TD BP 265
PRIVATE PHONE: +228) 90 33 318.
PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:ahmedgidai@myway.com

ATTN:

Compliments of the day,In brief,My name is Mr.Ahmed Gidai.The manager Credit
and Account Department of BANQUE SANS FRONTIERE SARL Lome-Togo. I am writing
in a respect of unclaimed deposit belonging to our customer,who died here in
Lome Togo . Since the demise of this customer of my bank I personally have
watched with kin interest to see any next of kin or beneficiary to this
deposit but no one has come up for the claim of US$6.5M (Six Milion Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has being in our bank's
security vault for a period of time .

On this note,i decided to seek for your noble assistance to help me come for
the release and transfer of this fund into any of your nominated bank
account abroad,In the sense to make you the beneficiary to this unclaimed
deposit.As no one both friends and relatives has come up as the next of kin
to this deposit,our modus opprandum and our ethics here does not allow such
deposit to stay more than five years, because after five years the money
will be confiscated into the nations treasury as an unclaimed deposit.

In view of this, the request of a foreigner as the next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the then customer was a foreigner
and in accordance to our allied and banking ethics a Togolaise can not stand
as the next of kin to a foreigner.I have agreed to share this money with you
in the mutual understanding of agreeable terms .Thereafter i will visit your
country for the mutual sharing between both of us.

I will need your full names, contact address, telephone and fax numbers so
that i will slot it into our bank Data base for it to tally with what we
have in the security vault of the bank. Bear in mind also that i would like
to invest my own part of the share in your country prior to your kind advice
on a very profitable venture , as i am almost due for retirement.

For us to proceed towards this transaction,you have to send an application
text to the bank as the next of kin to their deceased customer.I will send
to you a draft detailed application which you will fill and send to the bank
for an official commencement of this transaction.

Upon your response to this mail.I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as
the whole required arrangment has been perfected for the successfull claim
and transfer of this fund.

Don't forget to keep this transaction a top confidential untill we achieve
our goal.

You may contact me as a matter of fact and urgency on my private
telephone :+228) 90 33 318 for more informations and clarifications.

Hoping to hear a positive response from you.

Best regards,
Mr Ahmed Gidai.

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