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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: "Mr. Chen Guan" <chenguan102@info.com>
Reply-To: chenguan102@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 02:27:08 -0400 (AMT)
Subject: Business Proposal!!!




Hello Friend,


I am Mr.Chen Guan, financial director, Bank of China.

Our Client, Gen Razak Taleb Abdel, a businessman and also who was with the
Iraqi forces, made a fixed deposit, of Seventeen million Three
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of
notices was sent to him, before the war which began in 2003 and also
after the war but, no response came from him. We later found out that the
General along with his wife and only daughter had been killed
during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.

After more inquiry it was also discovered that the late Gen. did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit. What bothers me most is according to the laws of
my country at the expiration of 7 years the funds will be
revert to the ownership of the China Government if nobody comes for the
funds, Against this scenery, I have all the information needed
to claim these funds and I want you to act as the beneficiary of the
deposit, there is no risk involved in this matter, as we are going to
adopt a legitimate method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary
documents.

All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law. Please accept my apologies and keep my
confidence.

Considering the money involved, and due to the nature of this transaction,
it is necessary for you to be sure of whom you are
transacting with. I want to be sure that you are ready, to execute this
transaction with me, What I expect from you is trust and
commitment, I want this large sum of money transferred with your
assistance and you should have nothing to worry about regarding
legality AT ALL, because what affects you Shall also affects me too,
considering the paper work we are about to sign together but, I will
appreciate you to follow my directives amicably as everything shall be
done in accordance passing through all international banking laws, and
as a banker I know that if we follow up this transaction diligently it
would be completed within 9 working days.

Please get back to if you are interested so i can forward to you the
details on how this can done.

Have a wonderful day.

Thank you,
Mr. Chen Guan.

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