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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: zadeh almhdie <za_al200@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY.


Dear Amarjit Singh,

Thanks for your mail which I just received,I promise not to let you down as you give me the full support so that we acheive our aims by claiming this fund.I want to assure you that there is no risk in this transaction as you may think, the reason why I contacted you in this transaction is because our late customer Mr Andreas Schranner, is a foreigner and an indigene (Burkinabe) can not stand as next of kin to our deceased customer unless a foreigner.But for now I want you to be following up every process that I will be giving you so that we can acheive this aim.

Base on this I will advise you to feel free all is well, I studied this transaction very well before contacting you for assistance. Well, having served this bank for so many years now and nearing my retirement I deem it necessary to utilise this opportunity of the present unclaimed sum of money in the account sent inconjuction with the first proposal I sent to you to help myself and my family after my retirement through the investment I will establish in your country with my percentage in the transaction.

There is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our deceased customer and owner of the account number N° 4934109 with the following reasons:

(a)Before the death of our deceased customer his true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy and confidentiality of the transactions which our late customer transacted with the various governments in
West Africa.

(b)Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank, it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to verify the next of kin as well as the true heritor of the fund.

(c)And for the above reasons the managements of the bank authorised me officially as the executive manager, AUDTITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT of the bank to verify the next of kin to our deceased customer.

Therefore, the bank will always abide by my official directions through the official authorisation bestowed on me. And for this reasons you have nothing to fear as your interest and identity will be legally protected. More so, the only informations required from you by the bank is your banking datas as contained in the official application which I will give you to send to our bank after your immediate response because the receipt of your application is the commencement of the official process of this transaction.

Now I will like to use this opportunity to tell you the detail informations concerning our deceased customer. The deceased account holder with our bank was Mr Andreas Schranner, FROM GERMANY. He held account number 4934109, ROUTING No : 91002211 with our bank. He died in the Concorde crash of july 2000 with his family at as I stated in my first mail. Since his death, this account has been dormant and nobody has applied to our bank for the release of this money to him or her as the next of kin.As the auditing and accounting Manager of this bank, I have studied this transaction very carefully and I have noted that there are no risks involved. I am here to protect all your interests in this transaction until this money hits your account. Since I am here I shall be giving you all the developmental information from the bank as soon as this transaction commences.

I know that you will not disappoint me when this money enters your account, I have all my hope in this transaction because I shall soon go on retirement. I am a simple banker whose credibility is still intact and with my maturity and understanding, I promise to give you the best co-operation. We must hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and the government shall not claim and inherit this money because it has over-stayed. After the bank have approve your application as next of kin to our late customer I will fly down your country for investment with my own share, but I will advise you to keep it as a top secret because no body again new about this transaction except you and I.

BELOW IS THE TEXT OF APPLICATION FILL AND SEND.

Regards,

Mr Zadeh Almhdie.


What you have to do now is to fill your personal datas/account informations in below text of application and send it to the bank foreign remittance department email address: (b.o.abf2001@mail.com/boa_bf_2001@excite.com) or fax number 00226 50 32 00 71.

Write or call me by my number 00226 76 50 45 84 immediately you send the application to the bank so that I will follow it up and advise you on what to do.

SEE THE APPLICATION.

YOUR ADDRESS................................

YOUR TELL NO................................

YOUR FAX NO................................

E-MAIL ADDRESS...........................

ATTN,MR IGHO OVIE,
FOREIGN REMITTANCES / DIRECTOR,
BANK OF AFRICA.(BOA)

APPLYING AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED.
I.........FROM.........HEREBY APPLY TO YOUR BANK AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO YOUR DECEASED CUSTOMER MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER, FROM GERMANY, HOLDER OF ACCOUNT N° BOA 4934109, PUTTING CLAIM OVER HIS BALANCE WITH YOUR BANK VALUED AT ($18MILLION) USA DOLLARS ONLY.

UNTILL HIS SUDDEN DEATH,WE HAVE BEEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATES,JOINTLY IN EXPOSITION AND BUYING OF GOLD AND DIAMOND.THE FUNDS WERE TRANSFERRED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT THROUGH OUR BANK FOR PURCHASE OF GOLD AND DIAMOND.
SIR, I WISH TO BE INTIMATED ON THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN HAVING THIS FUND TRANSFERED INTO MY ACCOUNT AS GIVEN BELOW:

Bank Name:...........................
Address:.............................
Account N°..........................
Swift Code:..........................
Beneficiary.........................

I ALSO APOLOGISE FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO APPLY SINCE HIS
SUDDEN DEATH IN A PLANE CRASH IT WAS DUE TO SOME
FAMILY PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE JUST BEEN SETTLED.
I WISH AN URGENT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO MY HUMBLE
APPLICATION AS THE URGENCY IMPLIES ON THIS MATTER.

THANKS IN ANTICIPATION OF YOUR CO-OPERATION.

YOURS SINCERELY.



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