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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: tizai19@laposte.net
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:55:39 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam.......


Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings,
How are you doing with your entire family, hope all is ok? Meanwhile, I am Mr. Toe Izai from Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso, I want this fund seven million three hundred thousand US dollars ($7,300,000.00 USD) to transfer into any of your reliable bank account overseas? I discovered the floating fund in an account opened in our bank for years. As it may interest you to know, this money belongs to one of our departed costumers who made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at seven million three hundred thousand US dollars only. Upon maturity we have sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.
Subsequent after a month, we sent a reminder and at long last, we discovered that the owner of this account died without an [inheritor] and the money is now floating, if i do not find a way to remit this money out urgently it may be forfeited for nothing as i have found out that he died without making a WILL and he did not even declared any next of kin in all his official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in our Bank and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
This prompted me to contact you by fronting you as the NEXT OF KIN to the departed customer in that way making you the legal beneficiary of this ($7,300,000.00 USD), and an empty bank account can serve to receive this money, as long as you or the person 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.
Meanwhile, if you are interested, willing and capable to process the transaction, your data is required as listed bellow, I will prepare a drafted application form which you will copy and forward to our bank as the beneficiary for urgent processing and transferring the fund to your own bank account.
 
PERSONAL DATA.
 
YOUR FULL NAME:
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
SEX:
AGE:
PHONE:
 
BANK ACCOUNT DATA.
 
YOUR RECEIVING BANK NAME:
RECEIVING BANK ADDRESS:
RECEIVING BANK PHONE:
RECEIVING BANK SWIFT CODE:
RECEIVING BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:
 
You will entitle 50% of the total sum of seven million three hundred thousand US dollars ($7,300,000.00), while 50% of the total sum is for me and my entire family.
 
Thanks for your understand, as am waiting to hear from you urgently with the required data above, feel free to call me +22679306950 any time any day for more details.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Toe Izai.
 
 


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