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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: "GEORGE JONES" <gjgeorgejones1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gejones@live.fr
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:01:41 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY


Dear Friend,

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise please bear with me
for contacting you through this media due to it is the easiest way I can
contact you as a foreigner with out exposing this business, and I must have
to introduce my self to you before relenting you the business I want to
engage with you, My name is Mr George Jones Manager Audit and Account
Department of our bank, African Development Bank (A.D..B) Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso and It is my humble pleasure to write you irrespective of the
fact that we have not met for the first time or known each other before.


However, I was able to get your contact through the
yahoo<http://www.yahoo.com/>international directorate in my earnest
search for a reliable and
trustworthy person that can handle this confidential transaction with me to
transfer the sum of nineteen million, three hundred thousand United States
dollars ($19,300,000.00 U.S DOLLARS) into your bank account, and this fund
was abandoned and left unclaimed with our bank since the real owner died.


The money belongs to our customers who died few years ago with all his
family members, moreover it is a current joint account between him and his
wife whereas they endorsed their children to be their successor in case of
any problem occurred to them but unfortunately sudden death took away all
his children, and i requested your assistance to apply to our bank as the
NEXT OF KIN to the foreign deceased customer of our bank and since our bank
got information about his death the bank have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his money but no body have show up as his next of kin
for the claim because the account is untraceable and the bank cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.


For the success of this transaction I will like you to apply to bank and act
as the only existing NEXT OF KIN to the deceased which our bank will replace
the deceased account information through proper documentation in position of
your own account this transaction is risk free it will n ever harm your good
reputation in your society because no one can trace the account, and on the
instant of the transfer of the fund into your account, the chapter of this
transaction will be closed entirely.


Please note down that once the fund get transferred into your account, you
will take 40% while I will take 60% of the total sum and I will resign from
work and come over to your country once the fund hits your account and I
will still need your assistance to direct me for business investment in your
country and you are the one to issue me a letter of invitation or visa
immediately the fund get transferred. If you are interested to assist me
this transaction you are to go ahead and reply this mail immediately with
your information as i stated it bellow so that I will let you know the next
step to follow immediately in order to finalize this transaction in a period
of time.


(1)Your full Name................
(2)Your Address..................
(3)Your Phone numbers.........
(4)Fax numbers...................
(5)Your Occupation................
(6)Your Age .....................
(7)Your Marital status............
(8)Your Nationality...............
(9)Your Photograph................


Once i receive your information i will then give you more details
information you will use to apply to the bank on how to transfer the fund
into you bank account.


I am expecting your reply soonest so that we can proceed
Yours sincerely,
Mr George

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