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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: "SK GREEN" <sk_green@klikni.cz>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 05:35:13 -0700
Subject: AS MATTER OF URGENCY


AS MATTER OF URGENCY

Dear Sir ,
FROM:S.K GREEN.
20-05-2008

This is a top secret and I will like you to keep it. My name is S.K GREEN, i
worked and retired from HSBC BANK LONDON Plc,as the BANK DIRECTOR here in
London.The story am about telling you is part of my New Year resolution.

Many years ago, the former president of Indonesia Mohamed Haji Suharto
siphoned a lot of cash which was transferred to banks and Security companies
round the world. This he achieved through compulsory charitable donations
and Tax he imposed on banks and companies to the dozens of foundations
overseen by him, known as Yayasans.The charitable foundations were only the
tip of the KKN iceberg. In order to exploit Indonesia's natural resources,
companies had to enlist the aid of a Suharto crony usually one of his
children in order to get through the bureaucratic red tape. In return, the
cronies expected an equity stake in the enterprise, without putting forth
any monetary capital. When Jakarta's water system was privatized in the
mid-1990s, for example,

One of the winning bidders had to give Suharto's son, Sigit, 20 percent of
the venture's shares. Sigit's involvement with the company
amounted to showing up for the contract-signing ceremony.

Now to be frank with you, I played a prominent role in the deal of securing
some of these funds, because my office was used as middle
contact, so I helped him to secure most of his money. Between February 10th
and October 28th 1996,the total of $410 MILLION USD(Four Hundred and ten
United States Dollars was transferred from Bank Indonesia, the central bank,
to my bank and was later moved to a security company for safe keeping.

So recently, after watching the suffering of the people and the aftermath of
the recent earth quake that rendered some people homeless, I have decided to
make sure that this money is released from the security company and sent
back to Indonesia to help the victims
and the citizens in General.Initally,I hard wanted to write an official
letter to the government of Indonesia but on a second thought, that will be
incriminating myself and it will pose a big danger for me and my family
members.

Like I told you, I want to make sure that this money is sent back to
Indonesia. I think the best way to go about it is to present you as the heir
or beneficiary of the fund, I have every document pertaining to the money.
Mohamed Suharto is very old and he is terminally ill,in
short,he just passed on and no body for now is aware of this money. The
security company doesn't know Mohamed Haji Suharto or any member of his
family in person, I personally supervised the transaction so it is very risk
free.

Once the money is released to you,take 25% and send back the rest to the
country (INDONESIA) as donation to the victims of the earth quake to better
their lives. That will free my consentience and I believe that God will
reward us. Whatever may be the cost of releasing the
money from the security company, 20% of the fund will take care of such
cost. If you can handle this transaction, please inform me immediately so
that we can proceed. Let me know more about you before we can forge ahead
please.

Expecting your response.

Best of Lucks,

S.K GREEN.
TEL: +447245760756

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