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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: Franklin Amaechi <inforinc66@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: franklin.amaechi@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:44:30 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: RE: AN IMMENSE OPPORTUNITY FOR ME AND YOU IN MY OFFICE




>From Mr. Franklin Amaechi,

Dear Partner,

Let me start by a formal introductions of who I am. My name is Mr. Franklin Amaechi, I work with Intercontinental Subsidiary Bank here in Benin Republic of Western Region of Africa as an Audit Manager.

My reason of contacting you is to seek your permission and assistance to handle a noble and immense opportunity I had in my bank which will be of mutual benefit to both of us at the end.

I am delighted to contact you through this medium (internet) after reading your profound recommendations through our chamber of commerce. It is obvious that this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused by internet fraudsters, thereby making it difficult for people to transact legitimate and beneficial projects on the internet, but I still chooses to contact you here as the internet still remains and considered the fastest means of communications in the present times.

I will also plead you not to consider this letter/preposition as one of those emails sent out on the internet by fraudulent people, and also plead you to give it a little attention and follow up as it deserves.

The contest of this letter is to gain permission from you to work as partners in claiming out the sum of $8,300,000.00 from my bank. The said fund has been floating in an account where deposited for years now.

In the year 2008, our bank had a transaction with Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) which accrued to the above mentioned amount, as the audit manager of the bank, my duties is to send report of all transaction to our Head Quarters for revocation ,but on that transaction ,I did not send the report in that year, and till date the Head Quarter audit department did not dictate such transaction on their system.

Subsequently, at the end of 2009 fiscal year, yet the transaction was not dictated, I quickly move out the fund from the management account and place it on a domiciliary account without any specific depositor.

Thus My reason of contacting you to stand as the official/legitimate depositor of this fund with our branch, as I will arrange with our documentation department to raise all official/legal documents proving that you deposited this fund with our bank on a stipulated date, and to back you up officially to put up this claim.

Please If you are willing and ready to utilize this immense opportunity with me, both of us are going to share this fund to the ratio of 50% of the fund to you, and 50% to me.

NOTE: The good news of this transaction is that ,as a staff of this bank, and an insider of this Project, I am going to arrange for our bank to transfer this fund to you through our official online transfer system, which is safer, reliable and convenient , no body is going to require your bank account details for this transfer to take place.

Only send me the following data, for documentation: (1) Your Full Name.(2) Address (3) Contact phone Number. (4) Sex / Age.

Be informed that I do not have an intention to contact any further person(s) for this project, unless I receive your reply email indicating that you are not willing and interested.

Please if you are interested, quickly respond to this letter today, to enable me acquaint you with some vital information needed for a smooth and successful transact of this project.

Thanks for your co-operation in advance.

Yours truly,

Mr. Franklin Amaechi
Audit /Account Manager

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