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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: "Ephraim David" <davidephraim1@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: davidephraim01@excite.com
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:21:43 -0700
Subject: Your urgent reply needed


Foreign Transfer Unit
CAJA DE FORTUNA BANK (FOREIGN PAYMENT AND PROCESSING CENTRE)
Calle Vizcaya 2 Atocha,28045 Madrid Spain

TRUTH OF THE MATTER

I have decided to contact you directly and personally after a serious
thought because I do not have any hatred on you, but your partners.

I am the Director, tested Computerization Foreign Transfer Unit Caja De
Fortuna Banco España which is the correspondant bank in charge for the
transfer of your fund. Sometime in the past, your partners approached me
through a friend of mine and requested me to assist them to conclude a money
transfer deal. They gave me your name, company name and bank particulars and
told me to include them into our computer system in the central computer
unit so that it will appear as if you are one of the genuine contractors
that have been cleared for payment.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
amount of money which they accumulated through inflated awards and the
money have been floating in the Caja De Fortuna since then. The original
beneficiary have been paid therefore they wanted to use your account to
transfer the inflated amount out of their country. We agreed that once I do
this, they would give me us$100,000.00 and another us$100,000.00 when i
release the fund to your account. When they saw that I have done so and your
name has been approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving
me the agreed deposit, they started avoiding me and resorted to threat. I
immediately delete the transfer access code (TAC) and your personal
identification numbers (PIN), which is only known to me due to my position
and duty but released other contractors fund without yours.

They became angered the more when they saw that their threat did not work,
they started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the
money to you without success. it is not funny that a beneficiary is being
asked to pay one tax or the other. i am 100% responsible for the delay and
obstructions because of their breach of agreement. if you doubt what i have
just told you, pay any amount they will ask you to pay now, after a short
time, they will come up with another reason to pay again and it goes on and
on. They are simply wicked and do not know where their problem lies. now, if
you want us to work together, these are my conditions:

A)I will have 30% of the money because it is only the two of us left for
now.

B)You will assist my son to open an account in your country or any other
place of my choice where I will pay in my own share.

C)As you have seen, it will be useless and a more waste of time and money if
you continue with any other person,

so it is better we agree with each other and conclude the transaction with
utmost secrecy. If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as
soon as possible quoting your contract number to prove that you are the true
person, so that we will finalize. But if you are not interested, I advise
you to forget the fund as it will be transferred into the federal
government consolidated national reserve. Kindly contact me on the below
security email address.

Best Regards,
David Ephraim

TEL: +34 646 214 835
FAX: +34 646 215 749
Email:cajadefortuna@madrid.com <Email%3Acajadefortuna@madrid.com>




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