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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: dubai barclays <dubaibarclays@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:01:55 +0700
Subject: FRIEND

**
*With Due Respect,
FROM MR.PATTANA ACHITA
BILL AND EXCHAGE MANAGER.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
KASIKORN BANK OF BANGKOK
THAILAND*
*Dear Friend, *
*Compliments of the season, I am writing to seek your cooperation over this
business proposal. First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction;
this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top
secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the
end of the day.*
*I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am
MR. Pattana Achita a manager with Kasikorn Bank of Bangkok, Thialand Asia*
*I came to know you in my private search for a Reliable and Reputable Person
to handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of huge
sum of Money to a Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence. In my
department,
we discovered an abandoned sum of $15million USD(FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED
STATES DOLLARS.)Only, in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who was huge to death in singapore for over illegal business , the
bank now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being
made by the Bank to get in touch with any of the deceased remaining family
or relatives but all to no success. the deceased is a citizen of Germany. He
is a known Philanthropist in, West Asia and the whole Asia continent Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody Applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
have not seen anybody coming as his next of kin since 2005 **It is therefore
upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you
and release the money to you via your foreign bank account as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and It is because of the perceived possibility of
not being able to locate any of his next of kin ) The Banking law and
guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained unclaimed
after ten years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a
foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Thialand cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.*
*The sharing of the fund is thus. 40% for you the account owner, and 60%
for I and my trusted colleagues.*
* If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you.*
*NOTE, *
*you should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter,Trusting to hear from you. pattabullo@gmail.com

Best regards,
Mr. Pattana*

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