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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: "SHAWN FRIZER" <shawnfrizer03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: shawnfrizer01@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:45:18 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE:
 
This e-mail message is from Shawn Frizer, This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited.If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message.
 
This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. My name is Shawn Frizer,  the present accountant of  BACA DI ROMA  [WESTERN EUROPEAN BANK ROME ITALY] at foreign remittance department. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.  I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner.
 
In my department  I discovered an abandoned sum of ( €18,000,000.00.) (eighteen  million Euro) . I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev a Russian big time Oildealer, who unfortunately lost his life in the Yak-40jetliner on March 9, 2000. You will read more news about the crash on visiting these site;
 
 
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml and
http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml.
 
You can also visit 
http://www.gasandoil.com for more information about Russian and Italian Oil and Gas bussiness transaction, cos he is one of the agent from Russia during his life time.
 
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin 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, but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin's or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I dont want  this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
 
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinable cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
 
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% for any charity organization in your country while 20% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 40 % would be for me.
There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
 
All modalities of this transaction have been carefully worked out and once started will not take more than fourteen(14) working days, with your full support. this transaction is 100% risk free. It involves no implication and no  precaution there after.
 
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of application which you will fill and send to the bank for immediate claim. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
 
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. For security reason, you must keep this as a confidential transacion.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
 
Yours faithfully,
Mr shawn frizer.


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