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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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Fraud email example:

From: vinc roge <vincent_rodge09@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mr.vincent_rodge1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:22:17 +0000
Subject: CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS LETER FOR MORE IMPORTANT
INFORMATIONS/THANKS!!


FROM THE DESK OF MR.VINCENT RODGEBILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,BIATOGO BANQUELOME6TOGODATE:28th June 2007

GOODDAY!!

With fidelity i solicit to contact you through your E-mail,Am sorry if this may peeved you but imagine that you will be a veteran person who will be able to handle this transaction without swindle or delude me at the end.

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of BIATOGO BANQUE here in LOMETOGO In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.500 (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSANDS US DOLLAR)in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. MUHAMMED ALI from JAKARTA, INDONESIA) who died along with his wife and the only son he has on Tuesday 2nd January 2007 in a plane crash with ADAM,s AIR at Island of Sulawesi.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot 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 at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discoverythat I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and wedon't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed,The money will be transfered into the banktreasury as unclaimed 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 togolaise cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the textof the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transactionis hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as allrequired arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact me for moreinformation .

GODBLESS YOU.
Your sincerelyMr.Vincent Rodge(manager)CEL:+228-962-7117FAX:+228-22222-52E-mail:mr.vincent_rodge@yahoo.comP.O Box 1259Lome - Togo.
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