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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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Fraud email example:

From: DAVID DOSSU <dadossu542011@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:40:32 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM MR DAVID DOSSU / FULL DETAILS OF THE TRANSACTION


Dear My Good Friend ,

First i must thank you very much for your offer to help me actualise this transaction and i want to assure you straight away that this transaction is 100%risk/hitch free why because before I contacted you I have perfected strategies that will guarantee a smooth and hitch free transaction principllay because of my position in this bank.

Like you saw in my proposal letter this money has been lying in this bank after the death of the owner who is a foreigner here in this country republic of benin and unfortunately the customer died with his wife and only child in the airways flight mishap and since then all efforts to get across to his relatives proved abortive and since then this money has been in a dormant account.

Now because of my position in this bank as the cordinator , I have decided to use my position to present you reliable and competent foreigner as the next of kin to the deceased who should be paid this money.I will use a lawyer whom I have contracted and of course my position to submit an application of claim to the management of this bank and because I am among the top management of this bank I shall surely influence the management to issue approvals that you whom I have forwarded as the next of kin to the deceased should be paid.

As contained in my proposal letter the lawyer after submitting the necessary application of claim will have to go to the high court here and swear an affidavit of claim/authenticity on your behalf which he will submit to the bank and this is in accordance to our domestic laws here to ensure that the whole transaction is giving all the legality that is required and a copy of this affidavit will be sent to you and i shall also send to you the fixed deposit certificate which ecobank issued to the deceased when he fixed this money in this bank.

Once this approval for payment is granted this money will be transfered into any of your nominated bank accounts and as soon as this is done, I will come down to your country to see the investment climate in your country so that we will know how I can invest part of my share and I will rely very much on your advise and if you so wish we can negotiate for parnership investment with you.

Note that i will compensate you with 30% of the total sum, 65% is for me while 5% will be kept aside for expences we will incure with bank during the time of transfer of this money into your account.

As soon as this transaction is over all documents relating to the account of the deceased customer will be destroyed and the records in our computer system will be deleted to ensure that in the next one million years no body will ever have any reason to remember this account again.

What you should do now is to send to me through this mail box the following informations;

1.Your full name and address.

2.Your bank name and address.

3. Your account number and swift code.

4.Your private telephone and fax number for our easy communications.
5.Your occupations to know if you are capable to handle this fund.

6.Your Age.

7.Marital Status
8.A copy of your international passport or id card.

9.the present country you are now.

10.your namtionality.

Upon receipt of this, this transaction will commence immediately and I assure you that this transaction will not last more than ten working days .

You should also feel free to call me on phone number +229 95815349 for us to discuss orally meanwhile as soon as you receive this mail just send all the needed informations so that we will commence this transaction immediately.

As soon as you send the informations to me please call me immedaitely to notify me so that i will proceed without delay.

Am waiting.
Sincerely,
MR DAVID DOSSU .
Tel: +229 95815349.


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