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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Frank Dom" <domfza2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <fdomchiefauditorafrib@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:48:24 +0900
Subject: From: Mr.Frank Dom.



From: Mr.Frank Dom. (Chief Auditor)African Bank of South Africa (AFRIB) LTDTel:+27-78540-9932Fax:+2786659-4121


My Prospective Partner,
Good day, I am Mr. Frank Dom, Chief Auditor at the African Bank of South Africa (AFRIB) LTD.I want to solicit your interest, trust and confidence to this very confidential business proposition.It is my sincere believe this will open door for unimaginable financial reward for both of us as we agree to proceed with the Partnership arrangement.
THE PROPOSAL:
This involves an amount of US$14,000,000.00 (FOURTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) discovered in a DORMANT (SUSPENSE) Account in one of the branches of the Bank during our yearly auditing of branch financial books.
After going through some old file in the Branch Archives, I discovered that this Account opened in 1997 AND belonging to one late Mr. Morris Thompson (a Foreigner), who worked with the Kruger Gold Company and a Geologist by profession. Since 2000, nobody has operated the account following Mr. Morris Thompson demise in 2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plane crash flying to San Francisco and Seattle from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico,
The Air Craft had crashed into the Pacific Ocean not far from Los Angeles on January 31st 2000, Mr. Morris Thompson died in the crash with his wife and his only daughter (Thelma Thompson, and daughter Sheryl Thompson).You may read more about the crash on website: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ On further investigation,
I also discovered that Late Mr. Morris Thompson's next of kin was his daughter who died with him. Since then, no other person knows about this account (except the Branch Manager who is also part of this arrangement and I am only contacting you because of your foreign status as this money cannot be approved to a local beneficiary here, but can be approved to any foreign account holder that can be substituted as the next of kin of Mr. Morris Thompson. All details will be made available to you as you agree to play along.
For all intent and purposes in the realization of release/transfer on the Fund in question, I need your full co-operation to make this work out as management is ready to approve the payout once we have made submission of relevant Declaration/Affidavit to the Bank/Branch I want to hope you can be trusted with this business because I don't want to make a mistake and I need your strong assurance, trust and confidence to be able to proceed accordingly.
With my position now in the office and the influence/cooperation of the Branch Manager of the African Bank (AFRIB) branch concerned, I will make sure that this money is transferred into your nominated Bank account. You may be requested to come to South Africa to sign the relevant transfer papers if need be. I hope to invest my own share of the money in your country in expectation of a very good return on Investment in any project as may be advised by you there.
Rest assured you stand no risk of any kind as the fund belong to us now, therefore after the eventual stage of the transfer of this fund, I am offering you 35% of the total fund, 65% will be for my investment. I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this fund transfer and other business ventures will derive a huge success thereafter. I am counting on your sincere cooperation as it is my hope that you keep this to yourself and if you approve, I will request you furnish your details for my Attorneys to precede with the necessary documentations and submissions to the Bank for the immediate scheduling of the Fund release/transfer in your name and account.
Looking forward to your urgent response via my above email address.
Yours truly,
Mr. Frank Dom.
Chief Auditor (AFRIB)
+27-78540-9932
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