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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: "benson anthony" <mranthony00014@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrbensonanthony07@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:34:45 +0000
Subject: From Mr. Benson Anthony.

From Mr. Benson Anthony.
The Manager Foreign Operation Department of
African Development Bank (A.D.B)


Dear Friend,

Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise as we
don’t know our selves before, and may offend your personality for contacting
you without your prior consent and writing through this channel.

I am Mr. Benson Anthony. The Manager Foreign Operation Department Of African
Development Bank (A.D.B) In TOGO REPUBLIC.
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of (USD 10M) ten million
United States Dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer (Mr.Arthur Smith) who died along with his entire family in in a
plane crash.

Since i got information about his death, i have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because our bank cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately i 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 discovery, I
now decided to contact you to stand and proved a foreign bank account for
release and transfer of the money in to your bank account as his next of kin
or relation to the deceased since nobody is coming for it and i don’t want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after 8 years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury
as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a togolaise
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agreed that 35 % of this money
will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 5 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and
60 % would be for me. There after i will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.

For us to proceed towards this transaction,you have to send an application
text to the bank as the next of kin to deceased customer.I will send to you
an application draft which you shall re-type and send to the bank for an
official commencement of this transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and
you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangment has been
perfected for the successfull claim and transfer of this fund. Don't forget
to keep this transaction a top confidential untill we achieve our goal. I
will need your full names, contact address, telephone and fax numbers so
that i will slot it into our bank Data base for it to tally with what we
have in the security vault of the bank.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you later.

May contact me as a matter of fact and urgency on my private telephone
number: +228 912 6687 for more informations and clarifications.

Hoping to hear a positive response from you.

Best Regards,
Mr Benson Anthony.

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