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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.Babatunde George" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <babatundegeorge@live.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 00:52:50 -0700
Subject: From The Desk Of Mr.Babatunde George

>From The Desk Of Mr.Babatunde George
Standard Trust Bank Plc
Lagos Nigeria.

Good day,

I am Babatunde George, Branch Manager with STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC LAGOS NIGERIA,I discovered an abandoned sum of ($16.311 million u.s.dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers,a contractor with an Oil Development company in Nigeria (NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLUEM CORPORATION), and,who here-in after shall be referred to as my client,on the Sunday, 2
February,2003,18:50 GMT my client,and his family were involved in Ikeja bomb blast unfortunately they lost their lives in the process of the bomb blast.

I cease this medium to make it known to you that since then , I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients
extended Relatives, this is also proved unsuccessful,hence my contact with you, I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where these huge deposits were lodged,particularly with the STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC LAGOS NIGERIA,where the deceased had an account valued at about (USD$16,311 Million United States Dollars Only).The bank issued me a notice to
provide the Next Of Kin or have his deposit with them confiscated within the next Ten official working days.

Since i have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over some years now,i seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased to have the account confiscated within the next five(5)official working days.The reason for contacting you is because you are a foreigner and can act in the capacity of the next of kin to my deceased client,and as such will enable a change of ownership through the bank,so that the proceeds of this account valued at
(USD$16,311 Million United States Dollars Only),can be paid into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it,then you and I will share the money in this ratio 50% to me,45% to you,while 5% will be set aside for unforeseen bottlenecks we might incurred during the course of this transaction.

Due to the banking law and regulation of 2009, sub section18d page 103 chapter 11 of constitution governing all banking policy in Nigeria, and in accordance to the banking decree 003 sub section 45 which stated that any deposited fund which remains unclaimed after the existing period of five years will be confiscated by the national treasury department as unclaimed fund.For clarity,this transaction is 100% risk free and you have nothing to worry about as all necessary
machineries will putted in place to make sure this funds is paid to you as the legitimate beneficiary to it.To commence this transaction,I require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number and fax number full,name and address to enable me file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. For confirmation of this transaction please refer to these sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.

I look forward to retceiving your prompt response,through my private email(acctbabatundegeorge@hotmail.com)!

Mr.Babatunde George.
S.T.B Branch Manager.

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