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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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From: "willson victor (via Google Forms)" <forms-shares-noreply@google.com>
Reply-To: wvic97@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:34:31 +0000
Subject: Greetings from Abidjan

Greetings from Abidjan

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to
overseas account ($160,000.000.00 ) One hundred and sixty million US
DOLLARS from a prime Bank here in Abidjan. I want to ask you, If you
are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who
will 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 end for this important business trusting in you
and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future
I am Mr.willson victor , presently promoted to Auditor General in one
of the banks here in Abidjan cote d'ivoire. During the course of our
auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened
in the bank in 2010 and since 2015 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/WILL] 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. Keith Lathan
an American and a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska State,
who unfortunately lost his life in the Auto crash in Alaska , which
crashed on January 31 2012, including his wife and only daughter
leaving nobody to claim the money. 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 the account
is a secret account.
The total amount involved is One hundred and sixty million US DOLLARS
only [160,000.000.00 DOLLARS ] and we wish to transfer this money into
a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am
only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has information
about the account, which I shall give to you upon your positive
response. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will
never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently
so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your
strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key bank
official who is deeply involved with me in this business.
I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. The bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction
immediately you receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I
will use my position and influence to obtain all 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, 70% will be for us.
PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
I look forward to hear from you.contact me through my email address (
wvic3@yandex.com ).
Best Regards
willson victor .










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