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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: kaba junion <mrkaba03@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:37:35 +0100
Subject: From.Mr.George.Willims

To My direct contact Email mr.george_willims@yahoo.pt
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From.Mr.George.Willims
# 9-10 Obrafour avenue
Legon district
Abidjan
{HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL} (RE: TRANSFER OF ($72,000.000.00 USD} {SEVENTYTWO
MILLION UNITED STATESDOLLARS)
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 72,000.000.00 USD) from a bank herein
Abidjan, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person
whowill be capable and fit to provide either an existing
bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the endof this important business trusting in you
and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am From..Mr.George.Willims the Director of International Relation
with a bank here in Abidjan, during the course of our auditing I discovered
a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2001and since 2014
nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old
files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died
without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr .Chris Marco , a foreigner, and a
sailor, and he died since 2010. and no other person knows about this
account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that Chris Marco was the manager
of Chris Coy.(Gh). LTD.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty Two million [$22,000.000.00]
upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account,The amount
involved is (USD 72M) I want to first transfer $22,000.000 [Twenty Two
million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners.

Account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner in my life,
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, without valid international
foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid
International passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money
is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Chris Marco is a
foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
Arrange your A/c and send it to me as follows for the processing of the
payment:

Account NUMBER:....
Account NAME:...
BANK NAME:.........
BANK ADDRESS:..........
I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down,With the in
fluence and the position of the key bank official we can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction .

Immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and
tobuild confidence, you can come mmediately to discuss with me face toface
after which I will make this remittance in your presence and
three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money
going into the account.

Thank you very much for your email, which I must admit I found very
interesting and I have given it some serious thought. Unfortunately at
this present time I am unable to be of any help to you as mycompany are
trying to complete a very very important project for one of the UK's
largest book publishing clients. This current contract is worth over 2.3
million UK pounds to us and I cannot afford to devote my time and resources
to any other project at the moment. It is vital that this project is
completed on time.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account.I will apply for
the legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount,60% will be for me,5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring and 5% will be for
orphanage homes.
To My direct contact Email mr.george_willims@yahoo.pt
Best Regads,
Mr.George.Willims.

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