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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: bonganiconstructioncompany@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:47:52 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION


Williams Smith.
13 MELVIL ROAD
SALTON, JOHANESSBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL/FAX: +27 742447381.

Attn:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Let not this message come to you as a surprise. First of all, my name is Williams Smith a Bank Manager ofone of the branches of the Amalgamated Bank of South Africa ( ABSA).

I am prompted to send you this mail out of my dire need of your assistance in the Business that I am herein to introduce to you.As a manager of my Bank Branch, I discovered a non
resident account that has not been operated for more than 13years, this particular
account has in it USD$22.5m and belong to one Mr. Bruno Orwell a German who was
a gold miner and had a company (ORWELL GOLDLINE COMPANY). here inSouth Africa.
From my findings, this Man Mr. Bruno Orwell is late I discovered that he died in car
crash in Cape Town 16years Ago During theApartheid Era in South Africa.

Having gone through the old files, this man never made provision for the next of kin
when the account was opened at this aspect, I became conscious of Moving the money
out and I have Discussed with my Head office Manager regarding this, and he is very
much Game for us tomove the Fund out of South Africa for our use if I can find a
foreign Partner who we can use his name as the next of kin to late Mr. Bruno and get
the fund transferred to his account.

This is why it has become important for me to Solicit for your Connivance in make
this possible.And we have agreed that if you be of assistance, that
we will compensate you with 30% of the Total sum while we set aside 10% to redeem
any expenses that may be incurred by you or we in the Process of this transaction.
Please if this is acceptable to you, Kindly get backto me immediately so that we
can discuss the modalities of the transaction and note that this transaction is
100% risk free.

I expect to hear from you soon.
Thank you and God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,

Williams Smith (Absa)
Tel:27 742447381.
Email:bonganiconstructioncompany@yahoo.com

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