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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: "ZONGO MUSA" <zongomusa8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: zongomusa4@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:28:52 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP
SECRET. However We were directed last year 2004 by the council of ministers
to carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue
payments to foreign customers and to effect payments immediately.

During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$10.5M (Ten million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.

Since we got information about his death, which the bank have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash.

Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane Crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

It is therefore upon this discovery that I send this business proposal to
you so that the fund can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and the bank don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account where the fund will be
transfer, and 60% would be for me,

There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation 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 wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will
only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and move
the fund into your account without any delay and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear.

You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send
you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased ,

Yours faithfully.

MR ZONGO MUSA
Bill & Exchange Manager,

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