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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: "Barr. David Chacha" <barr.davidchacha@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:21:26 -0700
Subject: Your Attention is needed


Hello:

Good day! With all due respect, I guess my letter will not embarrass you,
since I have no previous correspondence with you. I strongly believed I
would not regret approaching you in this matter.


My name is Barr David Chacha, I am the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of the
prime banks here in Benin. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of
my bank who perished along with 114 people aboard on 4TH MAY, 2007 in Kenya
Airways (Boeing 737-800) Crashed in Cameroon with the whole passengers
aboard.

There’s a domiciliary account opened in our bank in 2004 by this great late
INDUSTRIALIST who died without a written or oral 'WILL' attached to the
account. Since his death, I personally have watched with keen interest to
see the next of kin, but all has proved abortive, sequel to the fact that
no one has come to claim this funds and no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
until his death he was the manager of his company.

We wish to transfer the fund in this account out of the country and the
total amount involved is $76,000,000.00 USD. [Seventy six million United
States Dollars]. We wish to start the first transfer with $26,000,000.00
[Twenty six million] and upon successful transfer of the fund into your
account, without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.

I have secretly discussed this matter with the general manager of the bank
who I must involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of
the fund to any foreign bank account which you are going to nominate. On
this note, I decided to seek for a reliable foreigner who will act as the
foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing bank account
where the fund will be transferred into, for immediate investment on any
viable project as no one has come up to be the next of kin to the deceased.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Six
years without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government
treasury as unclaimed after this long period of dormancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my random search in the
Internet, to see if you can assist by providing a safe bank account for the
transfer or find a reliable person who will be capable of receiving such
amount. At the conclusion of the transfer 75% of the fund will be for me
and my partner, we’ll give you 20% of the total transfer sum, while the
remaining 5% will be set aside to settle expenses both parties might incur
during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you detailed information
about the transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
business is 100% risk and trouble free and you should not entertain any
fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within 10 to 14
banking days, after you’re apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund
from the deceased. We will destroy all documents of transaction immediately
the transfer is been concluded, leaving no trace to the transfer and to
build confidence.

When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail or you can contact
me via any of my contact information as stated below. You should also
include your private fax and phone numbers for easy and safe communication.

Tel: +229 62423102
Fax: +229 271919728

Respectfully Yours,

Barr. David Chacha.

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