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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: "Baba Williams" <uuu1947@googlemail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: babawilliams@live.com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:59:17 -0500 (ECT)
Subject: Re: contact me as soon as possible.




Dear Friend,

I know this means of communication may not be morally right to you as a
person but i also have had a great thought about it and i have come to
this conclusion which i am about to share with you.

As i earlier introduced myself to you in my last email, i am a senior
accountant of Oceanic Bank in Nigeria and in one way or the other was
hoping you will cooperate with me in this endeavour i am about to
undertake.

While working in the bank i stumbled upon the account of a deceased client
of this bank and i figured out that since you share a common name with him
i decided to contact you with this priviledged information regarding his
account, now my proposal to you is that i want you to coperate with me in
seeing that these funds does not go down the drain. HOW ?

Let me explain. At the end of a five year depository mandate of any bonded
depository account, if such an account is not claimed or renewed to
commence another tenure of 5 additional years, a 6 months period of grace
is granted to the account holder or its designated beneficiary, a probate
order of Mandamus is then issued to provide such a beneficiary whereby
failure to do so at the end of its expiration the funds will be
quarantined and shared amongst the directors of the bank at the end of
that fiscal year.

This is about to happen to the said funds of the late customer and the
amount involved is 7.8 Million Dollars (Seven Million Eight hundred
thousand Dollars), this i feel may not be to upright from both my end and
aslo the end of the directors of the bank but i think it would rather be
more beneficial to you and i who at the end of the day will use the funds
to affect the lives of other people as well as close family members and
well wishers. Now what i intend for you to do is to facilitate me with all
your basic details such as:

FULL NAMES
HOME MAILING ADDRESS
TEL/FAX NUMBERS
OCCUPATION
AGE
SEX

These information will be used by an attorney which will facilitate all
the relevant change of
ownership mandate apart from the basic documents which i have in my
possesion, as all copies of such documents will be provided to you as well
for your records. Once this has been actualised the attorney will present
the claims documents to the appropriate quaters in the bank and once they
have all necessary details you will be contacted by the bank within 48hrs.

I want you to please look at this opportunity as a good cause and please
remove every form of guilt from your mind because at the end of the day
it's either the bank officials get the funds or we get the funds one way
or another someone gets to gain, i also want you to know that the whole
process is 100% safe and you are guaranteed of your safety.

I await your response so that we can commence this project as soon as
possible.

Regards,
Mr. Baba Williams
Senior Accountant,
Oceanic Bank Int'l Plc;

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