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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: =?gb2312?q?Johnson=20Mark?= <markjohnson823@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: mjohnson02006@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:43:23 +0800 (CST)
Subject: REPLY IMMEDIATELY.


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FROM: MARK JOHNSON.

ZENITH INT'L BANK LTD

IKOYI-LAGOS, NIGERIA.



Dear Sir/Madam,



Completement of the day,



ACT ACCORDINGLY AND PRIVATELY

I am MARK JOHNSON the Bills and Exchange Director at ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care of and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.



MY PROPOSITION;

I am writing this letter to solicit for support and assistance from you to carry out this business opportunity in my department. Lying in an inactive account awaiting liquidation is the sum of USD $35million belonging to a foreign customer (Herve Garboudes) who was a petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National Petroleum corporation who is now late. He died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in September 2nd 1998.



The news of this crash was on the news which we have notified his relatives to no avail. See links below for more detail information:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/



http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/



Ever since he died the bank has been expecting his next of kin to come and claim these fund, the NDIC could not liquidate the account because I have filled a motion that a next of kin wrote in to the effect. To this effect, they can not release the money unless someone applies for it as next of kin, as indicated in our banking guideline. At this juncture I have decided to do business with you in collaboration with some officials in the bank, to this effect we solicit your assistance in applying as the next of kin and beneficiary to Herve Garboudes then the money will be released to you. As we do not want this money to go into the bank treasury as an unclaimed bill, or our superiors taking the funds for their own personal use. The banking law and guideline stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed for a period of up to seven years (7yrs); the money will be transferred into the banks treasury as an unclaimed bill. Our request for a foreigner as next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next of kin. To effect the immediate transfer of the fund to you as agreed, you must apply first to the bank as the next of kin to the decease,

The fund shall then be transferred to you legally in accordance to all laid down procedures governing closure of account and transfer of funds. If you are willing to assist us, we have agreed to give you 20 Percent of USD $35million.



Note that this transaction is legal, safe and 100% risk free.

Upon receipt of your reply which should includes the following; Your Full Names, Your telephone number for easy communication between us. I will confidentially work out all modalities for the successful transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary, and send to you by fax or email attachment the text of the application, as soon as you receive the text

I will further clarify you in details on how to effect the transaction.



Wait to hear from you,



Best Regards,



Mark Johnson.




- Johnson Mark


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