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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: "evanst_1" <pin55etoffice@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 19:06:07 -1200
Subject: I WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

FROM:Mr.Evans Tamara.
AUDITOR GENERAL
First National Bank
6th floor, 1 First Place
Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng
South Africa

This is from the office of Operational manager of First
National Bank South Africa.I humbly wish to seek your
assistance in this matter that is very important and need
trust and understanding.


Attn,

RE:TRANSFER OF USD$168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR
ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important
business.Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly
abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still
remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this
correspondence is private, and it should be treated in
strict confidence.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is
100% risk and trouble free to both parties.


My name is Mr.Evans Tamara, I work as the operational
manager in account management section in charge of credit
and foreign bills of one of a prime banks here in South
Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a Balance of US$168,559,000. 00
(One hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty
nine thousand U.S dollars only}. The owner of the fund is a
foreigner,a program leader who was believed to acquire the
fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI
government.The deceased died with all the members of his
family in an auto-accident in June 23,1999 without a WILL.

I want to transfer this money into your account as the
foreign beneficiary of the fund. I know that this letter
will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves
before, BUT BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS.
I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE
THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.


I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who
is my partner and he is willing to approve the transfer to
any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank
account because the former operator of the a/c is a
foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral
WILL attached to the account ,no beneficiary and nobody will
come again for the claim of this money. It is only a
foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the
account holder which I will provide to you if you are
interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this
transaction. This money will remain useless in this dormant
account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign
account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents
needed in order to claim this money. I only need your
cooperation as a foreigner to provide your safe bank account
information for the transfer. All arrangement that will
ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which
you are to nominate is already in place.You should provide
me with your correct account information for the transfer
and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication. I
wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this
transaction.

At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you
will take 25% of the total transfer sum,70% will be for me
and my partner while 5% will be set aside for transfer
expenses both of us might incure during the transfer
process.


Have a nice day as I entrust this transfer deal into your
hands. Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email me. You can
also fax or call me for more detail.


Let me hear from you ASAP.

Regards,

Mr.Evans Tamara.

Tel: 011 - 874763648313 Fax: 011 - 874763648314

NOTE:Reply to my private e-mail:pin55etoffice@yahoo.co.uk


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