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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: "sabbas070@terra.es" <sabbas070@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:59:17 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Dear Friend"""Mutual Business Proposal/Please Get Back To Me




Dear Hobbs,



I greet you in the name of GOD, the Beneficent, and the Merciful.

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax

mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer fund to

overseas account the sum of ($25,500.000.00 USD)Twenty fIve Million Five hundred

Thousand United States Dollars) from a Bank here in Nigeria .



I want to ask you, If you are capable to quietly provide either an existing

bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this fund,

even an empty account can serve to receive this fund,as long as you will remain

honest to me till the end for this important business,trusting in you and

believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.



I am Mr Sanni Abbas,I WORK WITH ECO BANK PLC During the course of

our auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened

in the bank in 1997 and since 1999 till date, nobody has operated on this

account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered

that the owner of the account died without a beneficiary to the account

hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this fund out urgently it will

be forfeited for nothing.



The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson of 61, of Fairbanks, Alaska an American and a great industrialist,business leader and largest

private land owner resident of Fairbanks City Alaska State who unfortunately

lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which

crashed, including his wife(Thelma Thompson)and only daughter(Sheryl

Thompson)leaving nobody to claim the fund.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 the account is a secret account.



The total amount involve is Twenty Five Million FiVE Hundred Thousand United States

Dollars only [$25,500.000.00]and I wish to transfer this fund into a safe

foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only contacting

you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local person here,

but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I shall give to

you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you with believe in God

that you will never let me down in this business,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 the next step to take urgently.



I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a

key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I

guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement

that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official will

destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving

no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all

legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with

appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange

departments.



At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total

amount, 50% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties

might have incurred during the process of transferring.Furthermore, the

transaction is Risk Free, there is no risk involved and the utmost

paramount of this transaction is Secret and Confidential due to my 15 years of

meritious service with the Eco Bank Plc.Which I dont want to

jeopardize.



Note that,all correspondence should be by phone and by e-mail,I will be

extremely happy if you can abide to my instructions, I believe the sky

shall be our limit and I am willing to invest in your area of specialization

at the end of this transaction. Feel free to contact me directly via my

email address or telephone.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation



Mr Sanni Abbas



Eco Bank Plc

E-mail:sanni_abbas@yahoo.es



You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list













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