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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: mark adams <mark_adams002@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:08:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED


FROM: MARK ADAMS
Agent of the Service of the Exchanges and Coverings of the Foreign Funds in Banque
Ivoirienne de l'Afrique Occidentale
(BIAO).
ABIDJAN
COTE D'IVOIRE

I am MARK ADAMS, I am an agent of the service of the exchanges and coverings of the foreign funds to the Banque Ivoirienne de l'Afrique Occidentale of COTE D'IVOIRE. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $ 11.500 000 Million dollars American (Eleven, five hundred and thousand US dollars) in an account which belonged to one of our large foreign customers who died in an air crash with all his small family living with him here in IVORY DIMENSION (2 children and a woman) in July 2004.
You can have more information of this accident on this Web site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we had information concerning its death, we for a long time hope to see his heir to assert his money, because we cannot reprocess this sum except if its heir had a presentiment of himself or a member of its family such as indicates our banking payment. Alas we have to note afterwards investigations carried out by a commission of which I formed part, that all its small family had died with him in this air crash which took place in July 2004 Since this time no heir is not to present.

It is accordingly that I have decide to propose to you to assist me fraternally so that the aforementioned sum returns to you as a heir or like member of his family, if not the aforementioned sum will be to pour with the Treasury after a 6 years deadline, which will run out soon with the case or nobody will come to claim it, such are our banking payments into force. However I does not want that this sum returns in the Treasury as money not asserts. This is why I request your assistance to be able to transfer this sum in your account. I accept that 40% of this sum are your share in the respect of your service returned 60% will be for me.
Total sum each one of us will be made remboursser for the small expenditure that we would have to make during the procedure legalle EC transaction, and it is the remaining sum which we will share according to percentages' quote.

(A draft-agreement will be sign between us, for like convention of our agreements, and to avoid any disagreement at the time of the division). When the money is transfére in your account, I will go immediately in your country to return in possession of my money share. I hope that you will keep this strictly confidential transaction and in the secrecy because you are without being unaware of that I am an official agent of the bank.

In be reassured that this transaction is at 100% without risk of each with dimensions because I studied the bases and all to plan for the good walk and the success of this transaction.
I await your answer and wishes you a good day.
If you interessed contact me by my address email my address email is mark_adams002@yahoo.fr

Urgent awaited answer.
MARK ADAMS.


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