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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: "Dr. Charles Daiboko" <thomaswanda@cantv.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charlesdaiboko@globomail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:51:25 +0300 (EAT)
Subject: Assistance/cooperation.




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Dearest Friend,

Please I Need Your Urgent Assistance/cooperation.

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
Dr Daiboko Charles
+22501659798
charlesdaiboko@globomail.com

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