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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "transfer into your account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Musa Abel <musaabel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:15:34 +0200
Subject: Greetings to you and your family i am the manager of A BANK
*Greetings to you and your family i am the manager of A BANK, i have a
business of 4million dollars to be transfer to your account for investment
in your country if you are ready to assit me get back to me i will give you
full details on how the money will be transfer to you.Note: That after the
fund has be transfer into your account 45% for you, and 50% for me while
the remaining 5% will be mapout for the expences incure during the transfer
of the fund to your account,
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because
we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that
most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to Launder money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds
which they transferred out of the shores of Africa was gold and oil money
that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent.
Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds
hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed
after transfer.I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians
and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy
act,I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no
one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control They
laundered over $38Million Dollars during the process .As I amsending this
message to you,
I was able to divert ($4M) million Dollars to an escrow account belonging
to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who is the
beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot of profits with the
funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no
longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The $4Million Dollars has
been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank without
transferring the funds to a foreign account to ena ble me share the
proceeds with the receiver.
Mr Musa Abel
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