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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: "auditing_dept@terra.es" <auditing_dept@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:36:16 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Hello!


Good day!

Upon special auditing panel set-up by the Boards of directors of my bank ABN-AMRO BANK LTD (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) to investigate all credit account operated by it costumers, that has been in operation for the last five (5) years. I discover a credit account with A/C N0:
NL85ABNA6008341843 floating with a huge funds amounting to(7,467,000.00Euros).

On further trace I came across the file and found out that the true owner of this funds is Mr. Andreas Schranner, a German who was a property magnate unfortunately lost his life, including his wife and their daughter in the plane crash ( Flight AF4590) which crashed on July 31st 2000 killing all 109 people on board.

For more information visit the web link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have been monitoring this account ever since I discovered this information and found out that no body has ever came on behalf of the Late Mr. Andreas Schranner as is next of kin for this fund. I am contacting you as a reliable partner to execute this transaction with me. Upon your acceptance, I will provide you with his account file information's and documents of deposit of the account and a text of application you will submit to the bank and I will then instruct you on
how to claim as the next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, so that the funds could be transfer to your overseas A/C, without any question arising from the bank.

And for your information, the transfer payment to apply for as the next of kin should be Five Million Five Hundred Thousand And Fifty Five Euros (5.5,000,055.00 Euros). As soon as you confirm your interest and co-operation with me, I will give you guidelines on how you can
transact with the bank for the approval of the funds to your A/C.
For more details contact: email ryan-vandam@3xl.net

Regards
Ryan F. Van Dam
Auditor (Abn-Amro Bank)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.






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