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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: "adim william" <dr.adimwilliam1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:05:07 +0530
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION


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* FROM THE DESK OF DR.ADIM WILLIAMS
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA,
LAGOS-NIGERIA



I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of BANK OF AFRICA,LAGOS-NIGERIA. I got your contact address through internet
net work search when searching for a good and reliable person that will
assist me in this transaction.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD $9,300,000 US( Nine
milllion three hundred thousand us dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who unfortunately died in the plane crash along
with his family while travelling for Christmas holidays with Union Transport
Africains Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the December
25,2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website
.

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/
12/26/benin.crash/<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/>

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and i don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after four year, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account and 70% would be for me;

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in
the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
Kindly contact me on my private email address:
ms.james1@rediffmail.com<http://us.mc334.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ms.james1@rediffmail.com><http://us.mc334.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dr.james1@hotmail.com>

Your's Faithfully
DR.ADIM WILLIAMS
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA
LAGOS-NIGERIA
ms.james1@rediffmail.com<http://us.mc334.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ms.james1@rediffmail.com>
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