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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: Mr Idris Karom <idriskarom1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: idriskarom@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:04:56 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Dear Friend,




Dear Friend,



I am the Manager of Audit and account dept of our bank, with due respect I decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ( 15.2Million USD) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.



I am married with two kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance,I have some money that i will like to transfer to your account that have dormant for year now that belong to one of our diseased customer German property magnate Mr. Andreas Schranner who died along with his entire family on July 25th 2000,all perished in the jet in the air France Concorde New York bound flight. please click here ;



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm



Since I got information about his death, there is nobody to stand as his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. This fund shall be transferred to any designated account that shall be provided by you as my recipient.



So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the fund since the law does not permit an indigence to claim such fund Since the real beneficiary of the fund is died, the bank are expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but unfortunately i learn through the investigations which I carried out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.



Therefore I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately the fund is transferred into your account, I will share the fund according to the percentage indicated below. SIXTY PERCENT (60%) of the total fund will be for me. THIRTY PERCENT (30%) for you in provision of the Bank account. FIVE PERCENT (5%) will be for unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer. FIVE PERCENT (5%) will be preserved for helping the helpless people, like charity organization and motherless babies.



I have since, placed this amount of on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (Anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf. These shall be done through bank-to-bank transfer.



All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account. If you are really sure of your integrity, reply immediately you receive this mail for more detailed information on how the process to transfer the fund into your account will be.



If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response with information below.



A. Your Full Name

B. Address

C. Direct phone

D. Your direct email.

E. Age

F. Occupation

G. Passport Number or any valid Id number.



Regards,



Mr Idris Karom

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