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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: <fluffy@kdsinter.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:16:19 +0100
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL


Hello Dear,
I am contacting you base on recommendation, trust and confidentiality. First let me introduce myself to you. My name is Mr, William Kofi I am the Regional bank manager of Zinet bank Limited. I am 51 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and INTEGRITY "I only hope we can assist each other.I have packaged financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Regional manager of Zinet bank Limited.
It is my duty to send a financial report to our head office in the capital city at the end of each annual general meeting.On the course of this year 1st annual general meeting which ended last weeks, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made an excess profit of Five Million Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand united states dollars [USA $ 5.750,000,000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.I have since placed this funds on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.As a deputy manager of this bank, I can not be directly connected to the funds, that is why I'm contacting you for us to work together so that you can assist me and receive this money into your bank account for us to share.Upon your acceptance of this proposal, I have generally agreed on this sharing ration 35% of the total sum for your assistance upon the receipt of the funds in your account while 60% will be for me and 5% for any expense.
Note it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this funds who made the deposit with Spintex branch so that our bank head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.Such transfer from our head office takes not more than 72hrs.
This kind of transfers is just like someone who banks in a particular bank and at a point in time wishes to close his or her account and transfer the funds to a different bank.I assure you we can achieve it successfully if you can follow my instruction and direction, hence I am here to make sure that every thing works out.Reply back to my private email [william_kofi20@yahoo.com] I can give you the full details and the steps to make the Transfer successfully,
HENCE I am here to make sure that every thing works out.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
Mr, William Kofi

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