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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: chasil willy <chasilwilly32@msn.com>
Reply-To: <chasil_wm006@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:14:32 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT



From Mr Chasil William..
21 route de Maconnex.
Genève 10
BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
SWITZERLAND



Dear sir
In order to transfer out (USD 26 M) twenty six million
United States Dollars) from BCV bank, Banque
Cantonale Vaudoise SWITZERLAND. I have the courage to
ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable for this important business believing
that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am Mr Chasil William.,the Chief auditor of BCV Bank
(SWITZERLAND).There is an account opened in this bank
in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has operated this
account again. After going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this
money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr.Sheu Yuan-dong who
died with his wife and their only daughter on
February16,1998 in a plane crash . No other person
knows about this account or any thing concerning it,
the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that this company
does not know anything about this account, He was the
Governor of Taiwan Central(Reserve)Bank.The said
amount is U.S$26.000,000.00 dollars(twenty Million,
US Dollars).Their death was occured Naturally.Please
View thiswebsite:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/


I want to first transfer USDM six million United
States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners
account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any
foreigner.
i am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can
only be approved to any foreign account because the
money is in us dollars and the former owner of the
account is Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong he is a foreigner too. I
know that this message will come to you as a surprise
as we don't know ourselves before. We will sign an
agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine
business. I only got your contact address from my
secretary who operates computer,with believe in God
that you will never let me down in this business. You
are the only person that I have contacted in this
business; so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take immediately.

Send also your private telephone and fax number
including the full details of the account to be used
for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or
sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that
you can receive this money into a foreign account or
any account of your choice where the fund will be
safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal
and sharing and other investments.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a
foreigner with foreign account and foreign
beneficiary. I need your full co-operation to make
this work fine because the management is ready to
approve this payment to any foreigner, who has
correct information of this account, which I will give
to you later immediately, if you are able and with
capability to handle such amount in strict confidence
and trust according to my instructions and advice for
our mutual benefit because this opportunity will
never come again in my life. I need truthful person
in this business because I don't want to make mistake
I need your strong assurance and trust.

With my position now in the office I can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you
can provide with assurance that this money will be
intact pending my physical arrival in your country for
sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to
any place. You can also come to discuss with me face
to face after which I will make this remittance in
your presence and two of us will fly to your country
at least two days ahead of the money going into the
account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately
I hear from you that you are ready to act and
receive this fund in your account. I will use my
position and influence to effect legal approvals and
onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and
foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of
this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me,
while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply.


Yours truly,
Mr Chasil William.



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