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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Danbaba Rawaa <danrawaa7@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:31:40 +0100
Subject: DANBABA RAWAA

Dearest,
Please I Need Your Urgent Assistance

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.


Alternative Email ( mulphy@mail.com )
Yours sincerely

DANBABA RAWAA

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