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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: william adam <williamadammm@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: william adam <williamadammm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:10:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLY WAIT FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED
.....................................................


 After my official inquiry from theforeign trade office of the chambers of commerce& industry  I decidedto contact youbut I did not disclose the intention to anyone else because of
the delicate nature of the project. I found your profile very interesting and
decided to reach you directly to solicit for your assistance and guidelines in
making a business investment and transfer of US$51,000,000.00(Fifty One
million) to your country within the next few days.




Please I must plead for your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed
official working with International commercial Bank as Auditor and computing
staff of Bank here in Banjul Gambia West Africa . There is an account opened in
this Bank in 1990 and Since 2001 nobody has operated on 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 will be forfeited for nothing

HOW THE MONEY CAME ABOUT :

The owner of this account is Mr David Charles Hughes
foreigner from and the manager of petrol

chemical services here in Gambia , A chemical engineer by profession and he
died since 1995 and then since 2001 nobody know about this account or anything 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 and the amount
involved is (US$51,000,000,00). I want to transfer this money into safe foreign
account abroad but I don’t know any foreigner ,  I am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can only be approved to any foreigner account
because the money is  AMERICA DOLLARS ACCOUNT  and the former owner
of the account is Mr David Charles Hughes and he was a foreigner

I am contacting you because of the
need to involve a foreigner with a foreign account as the real beneficiary I
need your co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to
approved this payment to any foreigner  who has the correct information to
this account which I will give to you when you sure of your capability to
handle such amount in strict confidence and trust .according to my instruction
and my advice for our mutual benefit because I don’t want to

make any mistake , I need your strong assurance and trust I shall destroy all
documents concerning this transaction immediately we received this money leaving
no trace to any place .

 

 I will use my position in the
bank and influence on other staffs to effect the legal approvals and onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from foreign
payment

department with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival
to your country for the sharing and other investment .




Hope to hear fromyou back if you are interested . You are advise to reply to my
private email

not bank email for security reason here is my email address below (williamadammm@gmail.com) 
and my SKYPE ; williamadamm

Thanks

Mr William Adam

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