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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. Dan Chika" <dan.chika1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:25:39 +0100
Subject: Mail From Dan Chika..


Dearest,

I am Mr.Dan Chika, Director of the Auditing and Accounting Department
,Foreign Operations Department of a financial institution I work in. I have
an urgent and confidential business proposal for you. On June 6, 1999, an
American oil consultant/contractor with (N N P C) Mr. William Barnes made a
12 months numbered time (fixed) deposit worth US$ 30.000.000.00 (Thirty
Million United State Dollars) with my bank.

This deposit was to secure the American contractor's bid for the job of
constructing a pipeline from Nigeria to the Republic of Ghana to supply oil
and gas around the West African Sub Region. On maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarded address but got no reply. After months we sent
a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employee (N N P C)
that Mr. William Barnes was involved in a plane crash with Egyptian Airline
990 as you can see from the website below;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/502503.stm

I therefore made some investigations and discovered that Late Mr. William
Barnes did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official
documents including his deposit document in my bank. The total sum of
US$30,000,000.00 is still in my bank as dormant account. No one will ever
come forward to claim it, for according to our banking law, after 7 (SEVEN)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Government . If the
account owner is certified death and nobody comes forward to claim it.

This is the situation, and my proposal is that I am asking for your
assistance to stand in is the beneficiary to Late Mr. William Barnes, for us
to transfer the money. All you have to do is agree to work with me in this
transfer . The money will be transferred into your designated account. After
the transfer, I will visit your country for disbursement in the ratio of 30%
(Thirty percent) for you, 10% (Ten percent) will be used to cover any
contingency expense,10% (Ten percent) will be donated to charity,the rest
will be for me. You do not need to worry, its 100% risk free and I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the Law.

I will use my position and connection in the bank here to do all the
documentation work for the transaction. This transaction is 100% risk free
guaranteed. If you are interested, please reply confidentiality and be rest
assured that this transaction could be most profitable for both of us. This
transaction requires utmost confidentiality and secrecy. I will require
you send to me your.

1) Phone number;

2) Contact address;

3) Age;

4) Occupation and location;

Best regards,

Mr.Dan Chika
Audit and Account Department.




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