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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: "susan micheal20" <susan_micheal20@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:20:04 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE MESSAGE

ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal
ATTN. PRESIDENT/CEO
It is my pleasure contacting you for a great business opportunity, though it
might sound so surprising to you, but it is a fact. It involves the sum of
($15,000.000.00 USD) Fifteen Million United States Dollars) waiting for
transfer from my Bank in South Africa, to any overseas Bank account. I am
writing you in trust as a reliable and honest person who will be capable and
fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c
immediately to receive this money.

I am Mrs.Susan Micheal, the Head of Audit Department [H.A.D], with
‘ALMAGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA ‘[ABSA] I discovered this sum of money in
an account during the course of end of year auditing in an account opened
with this bank in 1996 and since 1999 nobody has operated on this account
again which has virtually remained dormant, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited.

According to my findings, the owner of this account is Mr. David Heinz , a
foreigner, and an industrialist who died since 1999 in a ghastly motor
accident on his way to Cape- Town. from my findings no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that David Heinz until
his death was a member of board of trustees GOLD MINERS (PTY). This money
can only be approved for payment only to a foreigner, thus I contacted you
to purport yourself/company as late Mr. David Heinz next of kin.
We will be obtaining an affidavit of fact and other powerful back up
documents from the federal high court of Johannesburg South Africa which
will give a legal seal in other to authenticate you as the sole beneficiary
of this fund. If interested, we will sign a binding agreement that will bind
us together.

I got your contact from the international chamber of commerce here in South
Africa; though I have not revealed this business to any other person because
of my sensitive position in the Bank. You are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business; so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you on the next step to take .

Send your private or office telephone number where I can reach you for more
details and also to discuss the mode of sharing. I need your full
co-operation to make this transaction work perfectly because the management
of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, and this
business is 100% risk free hence I will be monitoring the whole transactions
here.
I await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs.Susan Micheal

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