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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.Jose Banderas <divinebanderas70@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:51:47 -0400
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

From: Mr.Jose Banderas Madrid-Spain Email: divinebanderas70@gmail.com {HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL} (RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 42,000.000.00 USD} {FOURTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) Dear Friend, Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics although, I wish to use this medium to get in touch with you first because it's fastest means. We want to transfer to overseas ($ 42,000.000.00 USD) from a prime bank here in Madrid-spain I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future. I am Mr. Jose Banderas, Director of International Relation with a bank here in Madrid-Spain ,during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1998 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. We will start the first transfer with Twelve Million USD [$12,000.000.00] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account, The amount involved is (USD 42M) I want to first transfer $12,000.000 [Twelve Million million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner in my life, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or driver’s license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c was a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c. I got your contact address from my secretary who operates computer and I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business ,so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit as started above. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner 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 instruction of a key bank official who is helping us in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down, With the influence and the position of the key bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving to no trace to any place and to build confidence, I hope to hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will apply for the legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and Foreign Exchange Departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 45% of the total amount, 45% will be for me and 10% will be for orphanage homes. I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested. Pls reply to: divinebanderas70@gmail.com Yours Sincerely, Mr.Jose Banderas Email: divinebanderas70@gmail.com Reply Forward

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