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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: "haoren zhu" <misszhu@atlas.sk>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:19:18 +0100
Subject: confidential


Compliment of the Day and Happy Days Ahead,

 I am Miss zhu, a senior staff in files department, Auditing and Accounting unit for foreign Operations in  Beijing Banking Corporation  BANK OF CHINA!.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of Twenty two million U.S.A dollars, ($22,000,000 u.s.d) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer MR. Mohammad Ishaque Rafique Ahmed, who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that happened in India on(Friday May 21, 2010 ).

Having made unsuccessful attempts upon my several inquiries to locate any of this our bank customer's extended relatives. I decided to contact you in this business transaction base on the fact that you are a foreigner and you can apply as a next of kin or relative to this our bank deceased custome, and I will be given you all the document information of this our bank customer to make sure that this money is transferred to your own bank account  for the mutual benefit of our both family, I am his account officer but I got to know almost everything about his account and all his document informations because of my position in our bank, God in heaven knows that i did not mastermind of his death,Firstly, be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, as all the original documents that will be needed in this transaction, ascertaining you as the bonafide beneficiary/next of kin to the deceased customer, will be duly and legally obtained in your name and fav
or. Please understand that I am only thinking of how to establish a legacy for our both families and that is exactly why I am looking for a reasoneble and honest person to champion this business transaction. as soon as the money is been transferred into your bank account I will retire from my work and comeover to your country for the sharing of the money please have this in mind that 50% of this money will be for me, and 50% will be for you.

If you are interested in this business transaction you should contact me on my phone number +8618729596413  immediately as soon as you receive this letter.And reply me on my private e-mail address (haorenzhu11@yahoo.cn) for more details.

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move  smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very well over this business.Please call me and inform me that you received my mail, because i don't go to net always,Upon the receipt of your response indicating your full interest in this transaction, I will be forwarding to you a draft of claim application form which you will carefully study, copy, complete and send to our bank for onward processing.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Yours faithfully,
Miss Zhu.














 

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