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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: Eng Brand <delix205@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: engbrand@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:34:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?V2FpdGluZyBmb3IgeW91ciBVcmdlbnQgUmVzcG9uZC7igI/igI/igI8=?=


DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Saambou Bank Ltd S.A.

P O Box 3511

Johannesburg

2000 South Africa



Good Day,

How are you and your family?

I am Brand.

I am the data base administrator of a bank situated in Johannesburg
South Africa which I am yet to disclose to you until you fully indicate
your interest in this business proposal which I am relating to you
because of security reason as I am a staff in the same bank.



I know you will be surprised to get a message from me but never mind
because the only thing that brought you to me is business assistance
which I believe you will really give a taught if I give you the detail.



I have worked in this bank for 7 years as the database administrator
and my job is to create users and also upgrade and manage indexes of
the database of this

bank.



The bank itself is going into distress and I know that because of my
vital position as the database administrator and it is expected that
with this global recession, the bank may loose its ground any moment
from now.



During my last maintenance of the database, as I was backing up the
files in the database, an account popped out which happens to have
popped out due to the account has become dormant and there is a program
that I created in the database that is responsible for extracting any
account that has not bee functional for over a period of 3 years and
the program automatically removes values from the user making the
account dormant and inactive.



I immediately accessed the files of the account registration and found
out the owner did not administer any next of kin or beneficiary to the
account opening documents that was imputed in his account folder.



I then ran a search and got his contact address in Tanzania and I made
contacts to that address and was notified that the house which was
rented by the account owner has been sold over 2 years ago and was duly
informed but the landlord of the house that the person I was asking
about had died some years ago.



I have run a trace and found out about the origin of his death and you
can read the news link below for more details of his death.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tanzania/1501084/Tycoon-dies-with-family-in-Tanzania-safari-plane-crash.html



His name is Mr. Alan Williams and his bank account has a balance of
$49, 875000 00 (forty nine million, eight hundred and seventy nine
thousand U.S Dollar)





I want you to be well informed that no one in the bank know about this
because immediately I got the full information about his death, I
encrypted his account and hid it one of the folder in the database
where no one could find it because



I know that if this information gets first to one of the officials of
the bank, they will immediately grab this money and get rich.



As the database administrator of the bank, I have full access to all
the files and folders in the database of the bank and I have the
privilege of inputting ,editing and deleting files and information in
the database and I can put your name as the next of kin so that we can
claim this money instantly without any problem because it will be clear
to everybody in the bank and even the whole world that the late owner
of the account made you his next of kin because it will be in the banks
database and nobody will ever get into trouble.



I cant do it by myself because I am the database administrator and it
will never work if I am directly involved and also I need a foreigner
for this to happen.



I have everything planned out and if you are willing to assist me,
email me back so that I will give you my private telephone number so
that we will discuss in more detail and introduce ourselves fully to
each other.



Thank you for taking your time to read this message View this address engbrand@hotmail.com



Have a wonderful day.



With much respect and regard,



Eng. Brand

(O.C.A , O.C.P ,D.B.A)




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