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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: "HERBERT WIGWE" <mrherbertwigwe_007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrherbertwigwe2000@myway.com
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:35:14 +0100
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME URGENT.

Access Bank Plc,
Commercial Bank.
Plot 1665, Oyin Jolayemi Street,
Victoria Island, Nigeria.
Fax: 234-1-759-5134.


>From Mr. Herbert Wigwe.
Deputy Managing Director,
Foreign Exchange Remittance Department [A.B.PLC]
PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: mrherbertwigwe2000@myway.com



ATTENTION; VAN-ACKER,


I am MR. HERBERT WIGWE, The Head of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of Access Bank Plc. I am writing you this Proposal to ask for
your support and co-operation to carry out this Private and Highly
Confidential Business that came out in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $12.5Million (Twelve Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our Foreign Customer
MR.RICHARD VAN-ACKER, Who died in an EAS Aircraft DC 9 at Kano City in the
North west of Nigeria on Saturday 4th of May 2002. Since we received
information about his death we have been expecting his Next of Kin to come
over and claim his fund.

Unfortunately, neither the Family nor any Relative has appeared to claim
this Fund and we cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the
next of kin to the deceased.

Our banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for a
period of Five Years, it would be transferred into the Access Bank Treasury
Account as unclaimed fund.

However, another Officer and I in the same Department have now decided to
transfer this Fund through YOU as the next of kin of the deceased since
nobody is coming for the Fund and we don’t want this Fund to go back into
the Bank Treasury as the unclaimed Fund.

Infact it is my Colleague that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer
out this Fund through a Foreign Collaborator outside the country. We have
decided to give you 40% of the total Sum of the Fund.

So please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and fax numbers
for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time. Please if you are interested, send me an
immediate message so that I could explain the details of this Business to
you.

I am waiting for your urgent response.

NOTE; [ IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE TO HANDLE THIS TRANSACTION,
PLEASE DON’T BOTHER TO REPLY ME, I AM NOT KIDDING]


Thanks,
Mr. Herbert Wigwe.
Deputy Managing Director,
Foreign Exchange Remittance Department.(A.B.PLC)

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