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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: "MR. HIETER HAENSGEN" <hieterh@bigmir.net>
Reply-To: hhieter@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:32:53 +0100
Subject: UPDATE ON YOUR FUND TRANSFER


SUBJECT: STATUTORY ANOMALIES ON YOUR FUND TRANSFER.
FROM: DIPLOMAT HIETER HAENSGEN

We are the Comptroller of Fund movement Terminal and Director of Statutory
Department of Inter Banks Credit Commission. My Department is affiliated to
FSA, UN, WORLD BANK, W.A.F. Our Liaison Desk is situated at the West
African Terminal 122 of Union Bank Plc and in Asia at the RESERVE BANK OF
AUSTRALIA, European Terminal at the DUTCH AUCTION SYSTEM with head office
in the New York City attached to the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, which
oversees and inspects the fund movement pre-inspection for all Central and
world Bank and other related ECOWAS member states.

My name is MR. HORST HIETER HAENSGEN from Queens land, Australia. In view
of my position as introduced and explained above, I have this privileged
information for you out of sympathy to save your fund from a big problem,
which will ruin your fund payment at your bank by the USA monitoring
agents. THE BACKGROUND OF THIS REASONS It may interest you to know that
fund transfer irregularities and misconduct of huge sums of money out of
Nigeria during the Military administration of the late General Sani Abacha
has created suspicions on any movement of large amount, which is to be
routed through Nigeria. For this reason, the new House of Government under
the leadership of Senator David MARK (New Senate President) has formed a
committee on Finance/Economic matters. This Committee was mandated to
deliberate on all fund movement above $5,000,000.00 USD and also to recover
all suspected funds. Consequently, our organization has been mandated to
assist to monitor all fund movement out of Nigeria. Since our
establishment, the sum of $18 billion dollars has so far been recovered. We
execute the pre-investigative formalities and all statutory requirements
around the world. The purpose is to monitor, pre-inspect, recommend or
defer your fund movement or seizure of the fund at your bank or on transit
or cable. Fortunately, our Terminal in New York has been monitoring the
routing of your fund for seizure. I became sympathetic to you for such
attempt to carry on. Hence, I decided to contact you privately in order to
advice you, which will enable you, receive the fund successfully without
any seizure or threat on the fund.

Therefore, this letter is highly confidential and top secret. For this
reason, you must not inform anybody about this letter or my contact with
you. You must keep my relationship with you to be topped secret and highly
confidential. If you can follow my advice and guidance, I will inform you
the only way out for the dispatch of your fund peacefully without any
seizure by either your bank or the US Monitoring Agencies to know. But you
ignore my advice, your fund movement by bank transfer will surely hit a
brick wall and you will keep spending money and time and energy without
any success until you forfeit the whole amount, which will be deferred at
that time for a seizure when the Monitoring Unit will adopt the motion for
seizure. The September 11th 2001 bombing of the WTC in USA has compelled a
strict monitoring and checks on all huge sums of money around the globe.
For this reason, the security Network in USA has requested us here in
Nigeria to investigate your fund, which has been routed for transfer
according to the following:

1. The real source of your fund.
2. Your funds background on Foreign Bills of entries.
In pursuit of that, I discovered so many anomalies, which may create the
security network for seizure of your fund. And your bank may start asking,
which may even put the bank into a big problem for suspicions by the USA
Security Network as a bank that keeps Terrorist fund. I am writing this
letter out of sympathy and I am willing to assist you and avoid any danger
to the successful conclusion. In order to help you, the following are my
conditions:
1. You must keep my relationship with you highly secret/confidential.
2. You must not expose all the above information to anybody.
3. You must be willing to act fast on any information, directives and
advice from me.

But if you expose this information, I will be compelled to do the right
report in that case, you will blame yourself. The method for you to
receive this fund is by cash at your doorstep, which MR. STEVEN FLOYD
THOMASSON and I will deliver to you at your address. Further details on
this arrangement will be furnished to you as soon as I have received your
comments to carry on. By then, I will be in a good position to explain to
you more on how to carry out the mission.

As soon as I receive your response, First i will scan and send you my
united nations diplomatic passport and I will give you more on the way of
such arrangements and I will also inform you our percentage that you will
be required to give us as soon as we have handed over the fund to you at
your address. Therefore, further details will be furnished to you and
my identity will be forwarded to you as soon as I eceive your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
MR. Horst Hieter Haensgen

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