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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: "Mr. Alvin Garry" <garry_al0047@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mralvinga@myway.com
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:42:33 +0200
Subject: Urgent Reply............

From: Mr. Alvin Garry.

Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Lake,5743.
Johannesburg
South Africa.


(CONFIDENTCIAL)

I know that This letter might surprise you because, we have not met neither
in person nor by
correspondence. But I believe it is one day that you get know somebody
either in physical or
through correspondence.

How ever My name is Mr. Alvin Garry, I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00
USD) One Hundred &
Twenty five million United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South
Africa to an oversea
account.First,I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.
This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential.

I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe ccount for unward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future.

I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an
account in one of
the top banks here in South Africa. The account was opened in 1998 and he
died in 2003 without written or oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated
on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company.

My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as
well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of
South Africa. The amount in this account is USD$125Million ( One Hundred &
Twenty five Million United States Dollars ) only. As a matter of fact, I
have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.

Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the
bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account
which I will give to you immediately, if you are interested to do this
business with me. There is no risk in this business. With my position and my
personal contact with the manager of the bank, the money can be transferred
to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner
who has the correct information of the account which I will provide for you.

So you should provide me with your correct account detail where you will
like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok.
The A/C Details have to be arranged as follows,

Bank Name:.............
Bank Addresse:........
Bank A/C NO:..........
Beneficiary:.............
Swift Code:.............

Your Private TelePhone:

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any
expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the
remaining 60% will be for me.

As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not
let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start the
processing of the transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay.

Contact me urgently via email address for further details, or fax me or call
me directly on my private satllite phone.

phone: + 874-762345315
fax : + 874-762345316

Yours,

Mr. Alvin Garry.

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