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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: vdo@vajira.ac.th
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 22:21:22 +0700
Subject: Please contact via email address showing your interest (
AbderRaoufCha@qq.com )



Mr Abder-Raouf Chaabouni
Operations Officer
Tunisian Qatari Bank.


Payment Confirmation

I am Mr Abder-Raouf Chaabouni, operations officer, Tunisian Qatari
Bank herein Tunisian; my
office monitors and controls the affairs of all the transactions in
the Bank concerned with foreign
contract payments. I have before me list of funds, which could not be
transferred to some
nominated accounts as these accounts have been identified either as
ghost accounts,unclaimed
deposits and over-invoiced sum etc.

As it is my duty to recommend the transfer of these surplus funds to
the Government Treasury and
Reserve Accounts as unclaimed deposits, I have the opportunity to
write you based on the
instructions I received two days ago from the Committee on Contract
Payments / Foreign Debts to
submit the List of payment reports/expenditures and audited reports of
revenues. Among several
others, I have decided to remit the contract sum following my idea
that we have a deal /agreement
and I am going to do this legally.


MY CONDITIONS

1. The sum of USD$8,200,000 Million only will be transferred into your
nominated account by
telegraphic Transfer (T/T), confirm-able in 7 working days. After you
have confirmed the transfer of
the funds into your account, 35% out of the whole sum will be for you,
10% for any expenses that
may arise during the transaction while 55% will be for me.

2. This deal must be kept secret forever, and all correspondence will
be strictly by email for
security purposes.

3. There should be no third parties as most problems associated with
fund release are caused by
agents or representatives.


If you AGREE with my conditions advise you on what to do immediately
and the transfer will
commence without delay as I will proceed to fix your name on the
Payment schedule instantly to
meet the seven working days mandate. I will need you to provide the
following information urgently
to enable my attorney start the processing of all the relevant legal
documents for the fund
remittance.


1)Full Name:

2)Address:

3)Tel:

4)Age:

5)Sex:

6)Occupation Status:


I assure you that, this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in
Tunisian once the fund is
transferred to your Bank account. Kindly reply to my private email address (
AbderRaoufCha@qq.com ) showing your seriousness and willingness to
champion this business
transaction with me in utmost understanding.

I will forward the original copy of my passport once I receive your
interest in this gesture.

Waiting for your soonest response

Mr Abder-Raouf Chaabouni
Operations Officer
Tunisian Qatari Bank


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