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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?GUARDIAN=20INTERNATIONAL=20BANK=20ESPA=D1A=20GUARDIAN=20IN?= =?iso-8859-1?q?TERNATIONAL=20BANK=20ESPA=D1A?= <andreas_ruth3@yahoo.es>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:03:11 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FROM SPAIN/TO YOU........


Dear .

My name is Mr. Andreas Ruth, an audit. Officer in “GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL BANK ESPAÑA “I am writing to following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of €5.5 Million Euros (Five Million Five Hundred thousand Euros) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Frederick M Wong, an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Egyptian flight 990 which crashed on Tuesday, November 2 1999, including his wife and only daughter. You can read more about the crash by visiting this site which I got during my investigation, please try to go through the site.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it

We don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after Eight years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.

We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for my colleagues and me. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account please be honest to me.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this message, you should contact me immediately with this telephone number +34 637 219 778 my email address is andreas_ruth3@yahoo.es Please note that all necessary arrangement for smooth release of these funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.

Thanks and waiting for your urgent reply

Mr.Andreas Ruth


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