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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: "ahmed tanga" <mohammed_tanga4500@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:56:35 +0200
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED/MAKE IT YOUR TOP SECRET.

FROM DR MOHAMMED TANGA.
THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL
  BANK OF AFRICA OUAGADOUGOU
  BURKINA FASO.
                                      A CONFIDENTAIL PROPOSAL
Good day and compliment of the season.I deem it vital to contact you for a business proposal based on my position as the accountant General of the Bank of Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in the west African Sub-region.During the period of my executing my official obligation relative to Auditing cum Accounting in the Bank,I discovered in a DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT favouring a foreign customer the floating sum of US$17,000,000 SEVENTHEEN millionUs dollars).
During invistigation with regards to theabaondoned sum, I discovered that the left fund belonged to a GERMAN citizen named Mr.ANDREAS SCHRANNER who died in a plane crash with his entire family and thus, without any person knowledgeable behind him ,to come foward for the reclaimation of the fund in the bank Of Africa.   Visit the web-site as posted dated .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Based on my discovery of this factual statement through the available facts and figures in the bank archive , I stand on the right vantage point as the chief accountant of the Bank of Africa to contact you for a singlar reason of providing an account for the immidiate transfer of the said amount for our collective use as I will furnish you with all vital information that can ensure that this fund is effectively transferred into your account for both of us.
This is a providential mission hinged on the fact that it is only a foreigner can successfully claimthis fund based on the fact that the late depositor was a foreigner himself. Glory to God , the bank adhered to my advice of allowing the fund for a while in the transition route to the her treasury until the next of kin to the late cutstomer comes for reclaimation of the abandoned fund otherwise, the fund would have been comfortably transferred into the bank treasury for lack of an emerging next of kin standing for claim.
What you are required to do implicitely is to put up an application to the Bank as his nominated next of kin by his extended family in GERMANY which is a workable approach irrespective of your Nationality hence ,you will stand by the power of such nomination as his cousin resident in where you are today to claim this fund into your account for both of us.
Any question, information that may ba required by the Bank during the process of the reclaimation will be forwarded to you on demand ,as to ensure that this venture is successful. It is highly confidential and risk free by virtue of my position as an insider in the Bank.
Precisely, after your response or acceptance, i shall forward to you an application letter to the Bank coupled with a well drafted Detail or data information covering the fund in the Bank with facts and figures that can warrant the bank transfer the said fund into your account within 14 banking days without delay.
Finally, I shall give you 30% in respect of your account provided for the transfer and any little expenses incured during the period of the reclaimation process.
DR MOHAMMED TANGA.


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