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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: "MR.DAVID MARK" <david_mark446@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrdave_mark446@katamail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:02:38 +0100
Subject: Re:Nine Million USD($9.000.000 only)

MR.DAVID MARK,
CREDIT MUTUEL DU SENEGAL BANK GROUP
DAKAR SENEGAL.
Email:mrdave_mark446@katamail.com

FOR YOUR ATTENTION ONLY
I am Mr. David Mark,a South African working with Senegal Branch of CREDIT MUTUEL DU SENEGAL BANK as the Manager. I humbly wish to seek your assistance in a matter that is very important to me which require utmost urgency and confidentiality. I want to start investment with the sum of Nine million United State Dollars in your country or any other country you may recommend with good economic stability and political climate. This money ($9.000.000 only) emanated after my bank was burnt down few weeks ago. Before the Fire incident, we had in cash a foreign exchange to turn of Nine million United State of American Dollars. A lot of loses were in-cured both in cash and documentations. After which the Board of CREDIT MUTUEL DU SENEGAL BANK summoned me to account for damages, but i declared that the foreign exchange was completely burnt,but the truth is that the money is safe in my personal custody.

For obvious reasons i cannot possibly place this fund with Established financial institutions and this required me to urgently look for a reliable foreigner to help move this fund invest/manage it for sometime before i finally resign from my office. I shall be interested in real estate, hotel business, stock & bonds. It is also my wish that this deal be handled as quietly as possible without ant leakage to the press. If you agree to act as a fund manager for me,then i will release the money to you if you meet my requirements. Upon a favorable response from you i shall let you know how to receive the fund. And after successful deal, your commission shall be thirty percent of the total sum which is three million USD for your assistance in safe moving the money off shore of Senegal. Sixty five percent for me and five percent shall be used to re-inburse expenses we might incur during the transaction. You shall also be entitled to an annual forty percent o!
f the after tax returns for the first two years of managing my share of the deal in good business. Thereafter the terms shall be reviewed.

I have a friend who is a diplomat with the South African Embassy here in Dakar-Senegal. He has accepted to use his diplomatic identity and influence to move the cases to Amsterdam by "DIPLOMATIC COURIER SERVICE COMPANY". This Diplomatic courier service company is an entity that carries luggage's and consignments only for government of nations. It does not carry luggage for private individuals or cooperate organizations. This means that the company does not deal with private people but deals directly only with diplomats. The beauty of carrying luggage's by this diplomatic courier company is that any consignment carried by it cannot be tampered with or inspected by any custom or authority in any part of the world until it is released to the owner(consignee) because it will have diplomatic Tags and Emblem.
The name of the diplomat is Hon. Diplomat John Brown. He is going to accompany the boxes to Amsterdam. Since the courier company does not deal with private people, it would be his duty to clear the consignment from customs of Schipho International Airport in Amsterdam before handing it over to you as the consignee. So we do not have nothing much to do in Amsterdam. we only need to stay in our hotel room and the diplomat would bring the consignment to you. The diplomat would also use his Diplomatic influence to assist us open a temporal domiciliary bank account in your name where the money would be deposited into before we begin to transfer to bank account you shall provide.

But if you have better ideas and suggestions on how we can move the money to your country, Please let me know if you would be capable to assist me. But if you do not have any other idea, then confirm your readiness to move to Amsterdam to receive the consignment as soon as it is moved. Please do not fail to include your contact address,direct Telephone numbers fax and identifications while replying this letter.

THANK YOU,
Best regards,
MR DAVID MARK


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