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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 Fanny" <william_fanny@outlook.com>
Reply-To: <william_fanny@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:46:07 -0000
Subject: Re: Mutuam Benefit

Hello Friend,

I received your letter and I can understand that you have been taken by surprise, but this is not the first time we have dealt with something similar and this is not same you have done before. This transaction originated from the bank where i am presently working and the procedures to move the funds to your account is quite simple. It is true that we do not know each other before; I found myself in this opportunity and had no option than to give out this blind trust by contacting you for this transaction. I want you to know that I did not just wake up and decide to do this, I did my proper home work before contacting you and I want to assure you that this is not a joke. I have worked with this bank for over 15yrs now so if I am not sure that this transfer will work, I would not have thought of doing it.

With your co operation, I am going to ensure that all adequate measures are in place to ensure the speedy transfer of this funds USA $18,200,000 million in the custody of Bank of Africa, (BOA) Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to your account .I would want to re affirm that my intentions are in the right places. I see this as an alluring opportunity for us to get this funds rather than having the bank officials confiscate and share it if no one’s comes for it. All I have to do is to remain at the background and be directing you on what to do. You will be reaching the bank as the said beneficiary without me and without mentioning my name to avoid any eyebrows since i am a staff.

This late customer died leaving no WILL behind and as i mentioned above, what is going to happen now is that the bank may possibly confiscate the fund he deposited if nobody comes up to claim it. In fact my branch has been served a notice to this effect. Since you share the same name with this depositor, what i am going to do is present you to the bank here as his next of kin because in his account file there is no next of kin. The fund is held in a coded suspense account and I have all the access information which I will give to you thereafter. When the money will be transferred, it will be labelled as inheritance so there will not be any problem with any government authorities.

This transfer will be done under the legitimate (BTO) Bank Transfer Order of my country and are going to be coordinated by me and shall conform to all the laws and principles of international bank to bank wire transfer. All I want from you is your honesty and to be steadfast all through. I am proposing a 50:50 sharing ratio between us. After the transfer, I will come over to your country to take my own share of the money and invest with you in any good profitable ventures.

Please I need you to send me immediately details of your full names, date of birth and your address, there are provisions where it will be filled here in the account form to make changes of the initial ownership of the account in your own name to enable the fund remittance in your favour. Upon receiving this information from you, I will change all the ownership guarantees of the Account in your name as the fund beneficiary to enable you contact the holding bank here with the application I will forward to you which you will copy and return to the bank here requesting them to transfer the funds to your account. In fact this will be mere formality as I would have arranged all the necessary backups to ensure that the fund is released to you.


However please because of the short time ,i want to re emphasis on the need for us to try and speed up the process and also to keep every information relating to the transaction strictly between us until the whole process is completed.

As soon as I have confirmation from you that the funds are in your account,I will make arrangements for my travel to meet you for disbursement. For all concern, I will prefer we communicate only through this particular email address for security reasons. As I wrote earlier, I cannot in any way handle this transaction by myself since i am a staff of the bank so this has to remain strictly confidential between us to avoid raise of eyebrow or necessary exposure when the funds is remitted to you.

All correspondence regarding this transaction between both of us should only be through this particular email address or any urgent concern, call me on my direct telephone number +22501454184.. I have accordingly attached in this mail my official ID card and my international passport for your future dealings. I will also appreciate you to do the same to enable me know with whom I am dealing with.

Once more thank you and I hope I really can count on you.

Your friend and partner,From: Mr. William Fanny,
Principal Treasury Officer,
Bank of Africa (BOA)
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.

Re: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

Hello Sir.Madam,

I know this message will come to you as a surprise. Please do welcome the letter as it is for our mutual benefit. My name is Mr. William Fanny, the principal treasury officer with one of the prime banks in Cote d’Ivoire. I have decided to contact you through this medium based on a business proposal, which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I know this might sound like scam to you because of a lot of activities going on in the internet today. But I assure you that this is real.

I am the personal accounts manager to one of our late client , a national of your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote d’Ivoire, the late client made a numbered time (fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months, valued at €18,200,000.00 (Eighteen Million Two Hundred Thousand European Euros) in my branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, PETRO-CI Corporation that my client died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork.

This sum of (USA $18,200,000.00) is still sitting in the bank and the interest is rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it. According to the law of Cote d’Ivoire, at the expiration of 5{five}years, the money will l revert to the ownership of the Cote d’Ivoire government if nobody claims the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to deceased person for the fact that you have same last name with him so that this money will not be reverted by the government. If this request matches with your inward intention for success and greatness, then you are urged to make a quick response indicating your interest and readiness to participate and work with me to make this successful please reply fast to this email address: Email: ...

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. In your return mail, please do forward your information as listed below if you are willing to complete this deal with me, to enable me put the total fund in your name

for claim as the next of kin to the deceased person:

Your full name:.............................................................
Your contact address:....................................................
Occupation;.................................................................
Your phone number:.....................................................
Date of Birth:..............................................................

I wait for your urgent reply.

Best Regards,
Mr. William Fanny

William Fanny

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