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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: Richard Silva <richardsilva5@aliceadsl.fr>
Reply-To: richardsilva2541@post.ro
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:15:56 +0200
Subject: GOOD NEWS FOR YOU !!!



Dear Friend,



I am Mr. Richard Silva, a Banker with First City Monument Bank, here
in Nigeria. I am writing this letter to ask for your Support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my Department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of ( USD20.5Million) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer Gabriel Harvey
who died in the Ikeja Bomb blast of the 27th of January 2002 including
his wife and two children.



Since his death, we have been expecting his Next-of-kin to come over
and put claims for his money as his heir since we cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies to claim as the heir
apparent to the deceased as indicated in our banking regulation.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relatives have
shown up to claim the said fund.



Upon this discovery, my colleagues and I, have agreed to make business
with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir to
the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an
account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the
banks treasury as unclaimed fund.



For clarity, we have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as
stated thus; 30% for you as foreign partner, 65% for me and the
officials in my department and 5% for the settlement of all local and
foreign expenses incurred during the course of this business.



Upon the successful completion of this transfer, my colleagues and I
will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65 % we
intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact
telephone & fax numbers,full names & address to enable the process of
this transaction in your favour and to effect the necessary approvals
before the transfer can be made.



Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because
of its nature. For confirmation of this story please refer to these
sites:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.

Regards,


Richard Silva.
+234-808-966-7776

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