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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: "Anthony Mbila" <anthonymbila13@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:27:11 +0200
Subject: Attn: Director,,

From: Advocate Anthony Mbila
Auditor-in-Chief Of
First National Bank Of South Africa.{F.N.B.}
Phone:+27 73 011 8857
Fax:+27 11 507 6901

Attn: Director,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue of its nature as being Confidential and Top Secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive but I am
assuring that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we are betting on
your honesty and ability in a transaction of this nature. Let me first start
by introducing myself properly to you.

I am Mr Anthony Mbila, Chief Auditor with First National Bank {F.N.B}here
in South Africa. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable
and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves
the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.

The Proposition: Mr Smith B. White. A foreigner, Miner at Kruger Gold
Company in South Africa, until his death a year ago in a ghastly air crash,
banked with us here at the bank and had a closing balance as at the end of
August, 2003 worth USD19.5m (Nineteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollar) which the bank now expects a next of kin to claim as
beneficiary.

Valiant efforts have been made to get in touch with his family or relatives
but there has been no success. it is because of the perceived possibility of
not being able to locate any of his next-of-kin (he had no wife nor children
that is known to the bank) that the management under the influence of our
Managing Director Chairman, Board of Directors, requested that arrangement
be made for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and subsequently donated
to the trust fund for arms ammunitions to further enhance the course of war
in Africa and the world in general.

In order to prevent this, some of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your
permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to him so that the fund USD
19.5m would be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's
next-of-kin. All documents to enable you get this fund will be carefully
worked out. This proposal is 100% risk-free. We have agreed that the fund be
shared thus, after it must have been transferred into your account.

1)15% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the fund.

2)10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental
expenses that may be incurred in the course of the fund transfer.

3)75% to us the originators of the transaction.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, then take advantage of the trust we
have bestowed on you and your company and kindly get to me immediately.

Please, furnish me with your most confidential telephone, fax and mobile
numbers. More so, I will need to know your religion, age, occupation and
marital status.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Advocate Anthony Mbila .
{Auditor-In-Chief F.N.B.}

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