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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: "Mr. Horst H.Haensgen" <joyubah0016@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_h_h_h@live.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:01:46 -0700
Subject: STATUTORY ANOMALIES ON YOUR FUND TRANSFER.


SUBJECT: STATUTORY ANOMALIES ON YOUR FUND TRANSFER.
FROM: DIPLOMAT HIETER HAENSGEN
Contact Me On +234-8033565181

ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

Firstly, I wish to introduce myself as a sympathizer of your situation. We
are the Comptroller of Fund Movement Terminal and Director of Statutory
Department of Inter Banks Credit Commission. My Department is affilliated to
FSA, UN, WORLD BANK, W.A.F. Our Liaison Desk is situated at the West African
Terminal 122 of CBN 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 CBN and other related ECOWAS member
states. Me and my colleagues MR. STEVEN FLOYD THOMASSON from Northlake,
Illinois USA. He is in charge of the West African Terminal. My name is MR.
HORST HIETER HAENSGEN from Queensland, Australia. In view of my position as
introduced and explained above, I have this priviledged 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 if you ignore my advice, your fund movement by bank transfer will surely
hit a brick wall and you will keep spending money and time with energy and
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 for me 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 and in that case, you will blame yourself. The method for you to
receive this fund is by cash at your doorstep, which I and MR. STEVEN FLOYD
THOMASSON 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 receive your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Horst H.Haensgen

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