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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: "garvin ahmed" <garvin_ahmed@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:19:20 +0000
Subject: please this is a confidential business. go through the details.

Dear Mr.Robert Bigham,

Thanks for your quick respond to my proposal and i want you to assure me
that you are not going to betray me as this fund arrive your account in your
country to seat on the fund. this is my ulmost concern of not contacting
foreign assistant since i discovered this abadonned account in my
department, but for the plain fact that i cannot claim this alone or use
someone from africa, there is nothing i can do to avoid bringing in foreign
partner to assist me as the next of kin to this heritance fund. secondly for
our own personal protection now and forever, you must promise me that you
are capable of handlying this business perfectly and confidentially without
disclosing this transaction to any one else for ourselves security reasons.

Please this is a professional business well perfected and will definitely be
realise without any risk involve. i'm in charge of this dept were this fund
is recovered and therefore i will be very calm here in my bank why i pass
you every informations and documents so that you will deal with my bank un
my behalf as the foreign next of kin to this dead customer.

All this is to makesure no one knows about our business linkage here in my
bank for safety realisation of this fund and giving it absolute security as
i will destroy all your informations to my bank as soon as this fund is
release into your foreign account.
Please we have two bank working days to realise this business so please i
want you to give it the needed attention to make everything speedy for it's
you that is in position to hurry up the whole proccess from my bank and i
will also be monitoring the business as an insider with my bank,
buteverything must not be expose to my bank or else we will be caught of
this business conspiracy.

I want you to rest assured that everything has been perfected before my
consultation message to you and i want you not to exercise any fear in this
business, all you need to do is to foolow my instructions throughout the
proccession of this fund into your account.
Any questions from my bank concerning this deceased customer will be
related to you as soon as we procceeed with this transaction, but for the
time being, i will not reveal any of this informations of claim over this
fund as that is only my own guarantee over this fund.
Every legal backing of this fund transfer will be done by my bank as long
as every vital informations about this account and the deceased customer is
given to my bank.

For a better understanding of this transaction,Below is a breif
explanation

1.I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section at the
foreign remittance dept of Africa development bank.ADB. Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso, and the deceased customer whom i used to know here in the bank is Mr.
James Hee.
2.the deceased customer is an International businessman of heavy
equipments materials who nationalised here in my country and has been
residing here for the past 14 years with his wife and two children before
the entire families had this tragic plan crash accident that claimed the
whole families.
3.I have travelled, spent time and money to investigate and i find out
that nobody or even a relation is aware of this money and the bank have been
expecting the next of kin to have come to claim this money for a very long
time.
4.Every information you will use for this claim is presently with me and i
will provide it to you when the bank needs it from you.
5.As an advanced man, i have perfected everything to gauranteesuccess and
you should not fear for i am here as an insider working here in the bank to
assist you claim this money successfully and i will be coming over to meet
you and your family as soon as the the money is transfered into your
nominated bank account.

Please, i want to assure you once more that i have perfected everything to
gaurantee success and you do not need to fear for this transaction is legal
and risk free just follow my instructions and i pray that very soon i will
come over to join you as soon as the fund is transfered into your account
for celebration, sharing and investment in your country .
For your notice, 40% of this fund will be for your gratuity in assisting
me in this business because i don't want you to think i'm all that greedy
that is why i part away this 40% of this fund to you for assisting me. but i
still want to put it before you that for every expenses that this business
is going to cost us during proccessing of this fund into your account from
my bank, i have set aside 5% to carter for all that and every telephone bill
that we are both going to consume to realise this business while i'm
entitled to 55% of the fund to investment in your country.
One important thing again is this, i don't want any body to understand
that i gave you this contact,If my bank happen to know this conspiracy,am
finish i mean i will loose my job and face a jail sentence for this
conspiracy,So please keep the confidential part of this deal to yourself.


I want you to be using this code number(00) When ever you want to mail
me,Make sure you end your mail with this code (00)So i will know that this
is my partner,I don't want anybody to understand our seceret
okay,remember(00)And if you receive any message that does not come with this
code number,Please don't try to reply,The bank may want to try your faith if
really your are the next of kin or not,They can use any security agent
working in this bank to send proposal to you,But this code will help us so
that we don't have problem.
In conclusion,I will strongly require you to kindly send me your telephone
number in addition to your oncoming message to promote and enhance fast
communication between the both parties.But,for the benefit of boubt,I am
including my telephone number to enable you reach and communicate me when
ever you needed a surden or urgent reaction from me to effect the matters at
staked. Tel: 00226 78 83 72 65. this is my private call number. please call
me late in the day.

Please you should forward this text of application to my bank for the
approval of this fund and please do not act as if you got this information
through me as a staff of this bank. note that if this application is
approve, i must have your personnal identity card with me while you will
equally have mine with you for our self quarantee in this business.

Sincerely yours,

Dr.Garvin Ahmed.(00)




FILL THIS APPLICATION AND SEND IT TO THE BANK IMMEDIATELY WITH MY BANK EMAIL
ADDRESS:africandevbank@orgbf.zzn.com.


Dr. Mohammadu Jefferson.
Managing director
Africa development Bank(ADB)
Foreign remittance Department
Email addresses : africandevbank@orgbf.zzn.com
Tel:00226 78 85 19 90
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

APPLICATION FOR THE CLAIMS OF MY DECEASED RELATION.WHO HELD A
DOMICILIARY (FIXED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT) IN YOUR BANK WITH ACCOUNT N°
FB/ADSF240974002.

Sir,

I here by wish to bring to the notice of the board and management of your
bank,concerning the domiciliary account of my uncle, Mr James HEE who died
in a plane crash with his entire families October 31st 2000 in Abidjan sea.

I the next of kin to the deceased wish to forward this application for the
claim of his funds with your bank.I now want this funds transferred to my
account number as detailed below:

Beneficiary Name:.................................
Receiving bank name............................
Bank address:.......................................
Bank account N°:..................................
swift code:...........................................
Country:...............................................
Occupation:..........................................
Nationality:...........................................
telephone/fax number...........................


I anticipate an urgent compliance to this my application. And well oblige
you all necessary cooperation to this effect.
Thanks


Yours fatefully,

Put your name here..........................

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