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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: "DOUGLAS SEKO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dseko@att.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:13:05 +0100
Subject: Re: An immense opportunity for both of us from my office

Hello,
Greetings, i hope this letter will get to you in a perfect health condition.

First of all,I will like to formally introduce myself as Mr. Douglas R.Seko, the Regional Branch Manager, of Intercontinental Bank Plc, in the Western Region of Republic du Benin.

The project I wish to introduce to you centers on your acceptance and assistance to a noble transmission of $5.2M to any nominated bank account of your choice overseas.

ORIGIN OF THE SAID FUND: Following the end of the year financial report audit (2010), My office/Department, discovered that our Regional branch made a total of Five Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($5,200,000.00), from the transactions accruing to the account of Inland Revenue Service (IRS) ,which our Head Office is not aware of, because the Transaction with IRS was not detected by the audit department at the head office. Thus I seek your permission and assistance to partner with me to claim this fund out of our bank.

I apologized if am using this proposition to intrude into your privacy, and also plead you not to consider this letter as one of those hoax emails, please I urge you to give a little attention to it as deserves, although this medium (internet) has been greatly abused by those artists, but I choose to reach you through it as it remains and considered the fastest and most secured means of communication.

.By my position as the Regional Branch Manager of this Bank, my official duties include sending the annual financial report to our head office at every end of the year, In the report of IRS transaction, I did not send the report and the audit department at the head office did not detect such Transactions.

Before making this contact ,soliciting you to partner with me in this project, I have already separated this fund from the management account and place it on a domiciliary account without any specific depositor, Pending when I will source for a reliable and trusted partner who will assist me stand as the official depositor of the fund in my branch, so that the bank will repatriate the fund to any overseas nominated bank account of his choice, thus I contacted you to solicit your acceptance to execute this project.

If you are interested and willing to handle this with me, at the successful completion, you will get 50% of the total fund, while 50% is for me.

Do get back to me today, indicating your interest with the following listed data

- Your Full name
- Contact Address/ Country of Origin
- Contact Phone No.
- Sex/ Age

Note, upon the receipt of the above listed information, which I will program to our Branch System as the Official depositor of this fund, I will pass across to you some vital information and steps with which we will follow to achieve our goal.

Note : I do not have the intension of contacting any other person, unless upon the receipt of your reply email, you indicate your unwillingness to handle the project/transaction with me.

Awaits your quick/urgent response

Thanks for your co-operation in advance.

Yours truly,

Mr. Douglas Seko


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