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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Hollway <pahollway12@terra.com>
Reply-To: pahollway@terra.com
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:18:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY


Dearest,

Do you know that
for the past 10 years now more than €95Million has being diverted and
stolen by some greedy and corrupt politicians by the help of their
influential and powerful colleagues who has help them to launder and
transfer this fund through our bank to the Overseas? This fund were
derived from the sales of Gold and Crude oil and the fund was meant to
be used for the development of the Africa nations and the continent at
large.



As a banker working
in the Foreign Remittance Department, I want you to know that I have
acted as the Account Officer to most of this politicians, so I have
being involved and participated in the many financial transfer
transaction done by this corrupt politicians several times to the
Overseas. When I now discover that this politicians were using me to
achieve their aims by transferring this huge amount of fund through our
bank to the Overseas, I decided to use my opportunity as a top bank
official to divert the sum of €4.8Million to an Escrow Account belonging
to no one in the bank and then clean up the records and files
concerning this €4.8Million from our Bank's Computerize Data-base
Processing Financial Deposit so that there will be no trace of this
fund. Now the reason why I have contacted you is this; the bank's
management are now anxious to know who owns this account that has this
fund (€4.8Million) because the bank has benefited and made lot of
profits from this fund for almost six years now. I need a trustworthy
and honest foreign partner that I will present to the bank as the owner
of the account having this said fund (€4.8Million).



This is how we are
going to do it, you will have to send your personal informations to me
which I will have to program as the owner of the fund (€4.8Million) in
our Bank's Computerized Data-base Processing Financial Deposit, then
later you will write to apologize to the management of the bank and
thereafter instruct the bank to transfer the fund to you through the
Automated Transferred Money (ATM) Visa Card Account bearing your name.
So, if you are interested kindly send the following information to me
immediately:



1). Your full name (as it is written in your id card or passport). ................

2). Your contact address with phone and fax number.................

3). Your age. ...........

4). Your Occupation...............

5). Marital status (Married or Single). .................



Immediately I
received this listed above information from you, I will proceed to
programmed this informations in our Bank's Computerize Data-base
Processing Financial Deposit as the real owner of this fund (€ 4.8
Million) in the Escrow Account of the bank.



Yours sincerely

MR.Paul Hollway


















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