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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: michael biros <michael_biros2006fr@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:25:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: This is real


Dear Madras House ,


We recivied your mail, we thank you very much for your willingness to help us.

We need a foreigner to assist us move this money and that is why we contacted you. We can not withdraw any money from the account accept the money transfer out from the suspense account. We will give 25% of the money for your assisting me.

Our sincere pledge is that you can never regret assisting us and we pray that this will be an enduring relationship that will last from generation to generation. We know that you may be surprised to receive our mail since we have not met before.

However, we would like you to accept it in good faith and sincerety of purpopse since we contacted you based on Divine guidance. Everything work for good to them that trust and love God. It is God that directed us to you not human being. Trust is something we can build but we cannot buy. At this stage We do not have a choice. We know you may cheat me if the money is transferred into your account, but sometimes close associates and friends can also betray a trust reposed on them. Trusting a complete stranger I believe is not 100% risky.

Something just tells me that we can confide in you and that you will not fail us. The transaction we revealed to you is as it is. Please the assistance we needed from you is:
1. To receive the money for us in your account for investments in your country.
We also want to know if you have a Company where the money will invest?

2. To look for a good investment in your country where our own share of the money will be invested when it is transferred to your account. You will also manage such investment for us. This is because we are not good in business and have not managed any before.
3. To assist us migrate to your country as soon as the money is transferred to your account.

4. You will also assist us in getting a good school so that we will continue our education which we loves most and which we abandoned because of our ordeal. I was studying Library science/sociology in the Federal University Freetown - Sierra Leone but stopped my education in my part one when my father died and my sister Linda just finished her secondary education and awaiting her result until the incident befell us and we had to leave the country for our dear lives since the government of our country were out for the
families of the people involved.

Our mother brought us to this country because of the hit in our country and everything pertaining to the bank was handed over to them after the death of our mother....may her soul rest in peace and since then we have been alone without parents and families, no one to call upon, no one to assist us and we cannot tell anyone about this because this is our future and our lives.

We do not have a passport because we have never travelled before and we entered into this country through the aide of our late mother and a captain who assisted us down here, although he brought us in as refugees, we need to have a passport for me and my
sister Linda and we have met a lady working in the passport office who said that she will help us get new passports but we are waiting for the transfer of this fund first so that we can have money to pay for this passports.

We need our freedom and we want you to show us love when we arrive their in your country, please do everything legal for our safety and of this fund which is all that we have. Please you are not only an uncle to us but a father and also an adviser.

We are living a life of fear and insecurity here even in the midst of plenty. This is why we want to ransfer the fund out as quickly as possible so that as soon as the money is transfered to your account, you will send money to us for our upkeep and travel expenses to your country.

Please you know that this money is our only hope. Kindly keep the transaction secret.May the Glory of the Almighty God be upon you as you assist us assistance. On my own side, I wanted you to receive the money for me in your account for investments in your country.

Once we are sure of your help we will send you all the documents concerning the deposit.


This is the bank contacts you can call and verify from the bank about the deposit.

Bank name :BIAO BANK
Manager :Mr Blaise Talla.
Bank phone :0022507283919
Bank Fax :0022522001997
Bank email:customers02@excite.com

We wait your Reply.

Michael/Linda Biros

NB: PLEASE CONTACT THE BANK AND SEND THEM ALL YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATIONS SO THAT THEM WILL TELL YOU HOW THE MONEY WILL TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT.


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