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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.David Jacob <davidjacob1@aowic.com.cn>
Reply-To: dj4510776@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:41:35 +0800
Subject: From: Mr.David Jacob

From: Mr.David Jacob


Hello,

Am looking for a reliable partner for joint venture investments in your country. I want to invest overseas the sum of GBP15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million British Pounds Only) from our bank here in London.


I know that this message will come to you as a surprise, I am Mr.David Jacob from UK and the auditor general and head of Operations manager of a bank here in London and my wife is the vault manager in the same bank. During the course of our auditing, I discovered an abandoned fund in a dormant account worth GBP15,000,000.00 deposited in the bank and since then nobody has operated on this account.


After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account was former Iraqi President (Late Saddam Hussein) who died on 30th December 2006 after Iraq was invaded by American on 20th march 2003, He deposited this fund in our bank with a foreigner who died a long time ago,and since your a foreigner, you can easily make this deal with me. The owner of this account who was an industrialist here in London, he died for a long time ago and until now no other person(s) knows about this account or could give any documentary evidence concerning this account. As such this account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as I`ll that until his death he was living in London.



However, if you are interested in this business I will start the first money transfer with GBP5,000,000.00 (Five Million Pounds Only) upon successful transaction without any disappointment from you.


I shall also re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. While the total amount involved is GBP15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million British Pounds) Only. I would want us to make a first transfer of GBP5,000,000.00 (Five Million Pounds Only) from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest.


I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local account, without valid international foreign “Agreement? but could only be approved to any foreigner with valid international credentials: passport or drivers license and foreign account because this sum is in British Pounds and the former owner of the account is a foreigner, thus the money could only be approved into a foreign account.

Knowing all this, I will reach a binding agreement in this regards and as a matter of urgency and to enable immediate transfer and change of beneficiary to your name,you will have to apply first so I will draft an application which you are going to send to the bank foreign remittance unit for the processing of change of beneficiary and release of the funds to you. I will inform you the next step to take, while you send your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the transfer.



I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the fund will be safe before I fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments, I need your full co-operation to make this business a success, because the foreign remittance unit of the bank is ready to approve this payment to anyone from your country who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with the instructions of a key bank official who is also involved with us in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down.

With my influence and the position in the bank I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending to my physical arrival in your country for sharing, and to build confidence that you can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act as directed. If you are interested, I need you to provide your information, your full name / full contact info/ private fax no.At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 60% will be for us, I look forward to your earliest reply.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.David Jacob.




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