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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: "=?iso-8859-1?q?dr.john=20anago?=" <dr_johnanago@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:25:19 +0530 (IST)
Subject: NICE TO MEET YOU


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: dr.johnanago_2007@yahoo.co.in

From:The Desk of Dr John Anago,

Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )

African Development Bank

Republic of Benin. West Africa.


STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE

Dear Trusted Friend

Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy

information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you.I am

Dr Precious Smith,from (African Development Bank),Republic of Benin.During

the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of twelve million five

hundred thousand united states dollars

(USD$12.500.000.00) floating in an account opened in this Bank since 1997

and as from 2001 nobody has operated on thisaccount again, and after going

through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the

account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash, hence the money

is floating.

After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this

account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account

has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that

untill his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL]Since

our bank,(African Development Bank)Benin Rep.got information about his

death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his

money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next

of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines

and policies but up to date nobody came up to this bank as his next of kin

or relative.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my

departmentnow decided to make this businness proposal to you and release

the money to you as the next of kin or elation to the deceased for safety

and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we don't want

this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next

of kin as no one has come up as his relation. And the country law here

does not allow such money to stay more than Five years, for the money will

be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed

after this period. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you

the application form, bank's contact and the next step to take. I

will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and

that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for

fund transfer can be finalized within fourteen banking days, after you

apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased, Ithas been resolved that

30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out to defray any expences

that might be incured during the process of the transaction.

Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have

been emitted into your bank account. When you receive this letter,kindly

send me an e-mail signifying your decision. Including your private Tel/Fax /

numbers for quick communication.

I will be very happy if you can treat this business with the utmost secrecy

it demands because of my Hoping for a very successful business relationship

with you.

Best Regards,

Dr John Anago,



- dr.john anago


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