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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. Jonathan mande" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ambassadorto.netherlands@europe.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:14:40 +0200
Subject: From: Jonathan Mande

From: Jonathan Mande
Email: brown_brownslawfirm@legislator.com


First, i must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it`s 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. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

Let me start by introducing myself to you i am Mr Christian Olaku an accountant with the Ing Bank Netherlands. 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 a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.

The proposition
A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Creek an oil merchant/contractor with the libya government, until his death six years ago in a ghastly air crash, (ethiopian airline Boeing 767 on the November 23rd 1996) banked with us here at Ing Bank Netherlands, and had a closing balance of us$16,500, 000(Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros Only) which the bank unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in africa. Fervent valuable effort have been made by my bank to get in touch with any of the creek family or relative but proved to no avail.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/libya-ship-seized-britain_n_831389.html
http://trifter.com/africa/eu-freezes-funds-of-muammar-gaddafi/
It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of the late engr. Johnson creek`s next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our chairman and board of directors, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared “unclaimable” and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for arms rebel in Libya and ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Libya and Africa and the world in general and to up lift the image of the bank.

In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues and i now seek your permission to have you stand as the next-of-kin to late engr. Johnson creek so that the funds us$16.5m would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin, all documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and more so we are assuring you of 100% risk free involvement, your share stays while the rest will be for my self and my colleague for investment purpose in your country.

We have agreed that the funds will be shared thus, After it has been transferred into your account.

1. 15% for you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds.
2. 5% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer, (telephone and fax bills)
3. 80% for us the originators of the transaction.
If this proposal is alright by you, then kindly get to me immediately via my email address ambassadorto.netherlands@europe.com (only) and furnish me with your most confidential telephone and fax numbers and exclusive bank particulars so that i can use these information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour.

Thanking you in anticipation of your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Jonathan mande

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