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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!

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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?benedict.mrmccarthy@aliceadsl.fr?=" <benedict.mrmccarthy@aliceadsl.fr>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:56:46 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GOOD_DAY_TO_YOU....?=


3/5 RIDER HAGGARD
CLOSE, JO, BORTO:
SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL:office@fnbmail.co.za
EMAIL:infofnbank@fnbmail.co.za
EMAIL:offshoreinformation@fnbmail.co.za
EMAIL:posterdelivery@fnbmail.co.za
EMAIL:webmasters@fnbmail.co.za
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 126,000.000.00 USD}ONE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLAR ATTENTION: CEO,
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Mccarthy Benedict. the Auditor General of
one of the prime banks here South Africa, during
the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating
fund in an account opened in the bank in 1995 and
since1998 nobody has operated on this account
again, after going through some old files in the
records I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a [heir] hence the money is floating
and if I do not remit this money out urgently it
will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Allan P.Seaman, a
foreigner, and an industrialist, and he died,
since 1996. and no other person knows about this
account or any thing concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that Allan P. Seaman until
his death was the manager Diamond Safari [pty].
S.A.
We will start the first transfer with twenty six
million [$26,000.000] upon successful transaction
without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest
amount to your account.
The amount involved is (USD 126 M) One hundred and
twenty six million United States Dollars only. I
want to first transfer $26,000.000 [Twenty six
million United States Dollar] from this money into
a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest,
but I don?t know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money
can not be approved to a local person here,
without valid international foreign passport, but
can only be approved to any foreigner with valid
international passport or drivers license and
foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and
the former owner of the a/c Mr. Allan P. Seaman is
a foreigner too,and the money can only be approved
into a foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind
us together. I am revealing this to you with
believe in God that you will never let me down in
this business. Send also your private telephone
and fax number including the full details of the
account to be used for the deposit.
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence
and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us
together before transferring the money to any
account of your choice where the fund will be
safe. Before we fly to your country for
withdrawal, sharing and investments.I need your
full co-operation to make this work fine, Because
the management is ready to approve this payment to
any foreigner who has correct information of this
account, which I will give to you,upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you
are capable and will meet up with instruction of a
key bank official who is deeply involved with me
in this business.I need your strong assurance that
you will never,never let me down.With my influence
and the position of the bank official we can
transfer this money to any foreigner'sreliable
account which you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing.
The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money
leaving no trace to any place and to build
confidence you can come immediately to discuss
with me face to face after which I will make this
remittance in your presence and three of us will
fly to your country at least two days ahead of the
money going into the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa
immediately I hear from you that you are ready to
act and receive this fund in your account. I will
use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance from the
relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 20% of the total amount, 70% will be for me,
while 8% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring,
while 2% for charity, as a mark of God's gratitude
for the blessing
.
Please,I look forward to your earliest reply
through this my private email address not with my
office email: mccarthybenedict217@yahoo.com
I can be reached on this email address and on
telephone no:++27 766410090
I await your immediate response,
Regards,
Mccarthy Benedict
Email:mccarthybenedict217@yahoo.com
Tel:++27 737382072
Tel:++87 3763432095
Fax:++87 3763432096
IMPORTANT! Do not attempt to reach me on my office
email or office
number

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