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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: "david zongo" <david_zongo148@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: david_zongo111@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:37:12 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT/REPLY IMMEDIATELY

From the Desk of Dr. David Zongo
Manager Bill And Exchange Dept
African Development Bank(ADB)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise. I am the bill and
exchange manager in African Development Bank. I Hoped that you will not
expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you
for the mutual benefit of our both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $11.3 million
immediately to your account. This money has been dormant for years in our
Bank here without any body coming for it. The owner of this account is
JOSEPH F. GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of petrol chemical
service, a chemical engineer by Profession.

He died in world trade center as a victim of the September 11,2001 Incident
that befall the United State of America, the bank has made series of efforts
to contact any of the relatives to claim this money but without success, you
can confirm through this website:
http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1260:


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him. In
this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you, so
that the money can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody will come for
it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
dormant fund.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after seven years the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed dormant fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe like me can not stand as next of kin to a
foreigner, I agreed that 45% of this money will be for you as a respect to
the provision of aforiegn account ,5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 50% will be for me.

Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.
To enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased customer
with a text of application that i will send to you, but before i send to you
the text of application form,I will like you to send me the following
informatios:

1.NAME IN FULL:................................
2.ADDRESS:.......................................
3.NATIONALITY:...................................
4.AGE:.............................................
5.Sex..............................................
6.OCCUPATION:......................................
7.MARITAL STATUS:..................................
8.PRIAVTE PHONE NO............................................


Send to me those informations for easy and effective communication and to
enable me locate you immediately this funds gets to your account. Upon
receipt of your reply , I will send to you by fax or email the text of the
application form. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter,if only you are
intrested and ready to help.
Trusting to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
DR DAVID ZONGO.

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