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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: African Union Development Bank Plc <mike_edward1@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: drmike_edward2006@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:27:46 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject:

FUNDS TRANSFER
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 82.205.243.46

Dear Friend,
I have a proposal for you, this however is not mandatory
nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.

I am
Dr.MIKE EDWARD, the manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of the African Union Development Bank Plc,
Nigeria (one of the African leading banks in the West Coast).
Here in
this bank existed dormant account for the past 6 years which belong to
one of our customers(Mr.Andreas Schranner)who died long with his entire
family of a wife and two children in July 31st 2000 in a plane crash.
For further enquiry view the web-site for more details. http://news.
bbc.
co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

When I discovered that there
had
been no deposits nor withdrawals from this account for this long
period, I decided to carry out a system investigation and discovered
that non of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware
of this account.

Now I want an account overseas where thses fund
will
be transfer according to the due process of our bank in order to
avoid
voilation of any country and international Monetary laws on fund
transfer.
And for the past eleven months I have worked out everything
to ensure a hitch-free operation.
The amount is not so much at the
moment and plus all the accumulated interest the balance in this
account stands at-(US$15.million US dollars). Now my questions are:-

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What
will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer

Consider
this and get back to me as soon as possible.
To commence this
transaction,I require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a
return e-mail to: drmike_edward2006@yahoo.com.hk

I expect your urgent
response if you can handle this project.

Respectfully yours,
Mike
Edward.


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