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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: BCV BANK <bcvcustomerservice@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:45:56 +0100
Subject: NB PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE MAIL URGENT

lmrdonte@yahoo.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

>From Mr Dante Leymond
21 route de Maconnex.
Genève 10
BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
SWITZERLAND
NB PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE MAIL URGENT (lmrdonte@yahoo.com)

Dear sir
In order to transfer out (USD 26 M) twenty six million United States
Dollars) from BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise SWITZERLAND. I have the
courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable for this important business believing that you will never let me
down either now or in future.
I am Mr Dante Leymond, the Chief auditor of BCV Bank (SWITZERLAND).There
is an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has
operated this account again. After going through some old files in the
records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it
would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account died with his
wife and their only daughter on February16,1998 in a plane crash . No
other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that this company does not know anything about this account, He was the
Governor of Taiwan Central (Reserve)Bank. The said amount is
U.S$26.000,000.00 dollars(twenty Million, US Dollars).Their death was
occurred Naturally.
I want to first transfer USDM six million United States Dollars from this
money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't
know any foreigner.
i am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the
account is Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong he is a foreigner too. I know that this
message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before.
We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine
business. I only got your contact address from my secretary who operates
computer,with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business. You are the only person that I have contacted in this business;
so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
immediately.
Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details
of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face
or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive
this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the
fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and
sharing and other investments.

I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with
foreign account and foreign beneficiary. 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 later immediately, if you are able and with
capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according
to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity will never come again in my life. I need truthful person in
this business because I don't want to make mistake I need your strong
assurance and trust.
With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for
sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we
receive this money leaving no trace to any place. You can also come to
discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in
your presence and two 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 and receive this fund in your account. I will use my
position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,
while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply.

Yours truly,
Mr Dante Leymond
NB PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE MAIL URGENT (lmrdonte@yahoo.com)

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