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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: stephen <stephenobi2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.srephen_o@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:43:02 +0530 (IST)
Subject: From Mr. Stephen O. obi



>From Mr. Stephen O. obi

Dear Sir/Madam
 
My name is Mr. Stephen O. obi; I am the regional chief accountant manager of Bank International of Aafrica (BIA BANK) Togo, branch in the Volta region of Togo. I am a 44 year’s old married man blessed with three lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don’t want problems, I only hope you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me.
 
As the regional chief accountant manager of the Bank International of Aafrica (BIA BANK) Togo, it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital at the end of each year. But in the course of the last year 2010 fiscal report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the account chief manager a dormant amount of eight million united states dollar ($8,000.000.00USD) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. This fund I have placed in what we call "escrow call” account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is for you to assist me receive this money in your country through your bank account, and get 30% of the total funds as commission.
 
There is practically no risk involved, it will be bank-to-bank transfer, all I need from you
Is to stand claims as the original depositor next of kin of this fund, who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account?
 
I discovered the said amount of money during our last audit work in the month of April 2010. I discovered also that this money belongs to one Mr. Burckhard, Erich, I needs your help to come out to stand as the next of kin to late Mr. Burckhard, Erich, customer of our bank who died in plane crash on Monday 2ND September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to Geneva..
 
I want to make the following points clear for you so that you can have a better understanding of why am contacting you. Open bellow site for confirmation. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html
 
If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.
 
Kindly respond to me immediately. (So that we can go over the details) You can call me on my direct number +2280379709 for a voice talk and more explanation. The percentage
Is negotiable, I hope to hear from you soonest.
 
Thanking you in advance.
 
Yours truly,
Mr. Stephen O. Obi

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