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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: mazi101@webmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:42:06 +0200
Subject: Proposal (Are you interested.

From The Manager Credit and foreign Bills
Absa Bank South Africa Harfield,
Pretoria South Africa.


Attn:

My name is Mazi Buko the manager, Credit and Foreign bills of
ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with
account number -908-14-255-114 whose name is Cho, Kwiyoung(Mr.)
an American citizen who died in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight
801] with the whole passengers onboard on August 6,1997.And for
your perusal you can view this web site

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list

Since the demise of this customer, I personally have watched with
keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive
as no one has come to claim his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
which has been with our branch for a very long time. On this note,
I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of
Kin as no one has come up as his next of kin. And the banking
ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than nine years,
because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed
fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal when i was
making a research on a foreigner i will use in this great opportunity.
For your assistant I am willing give you 20% of the total amount.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail
the letter of application which you will type sign and send back to
our bank to enable us start this processing of this claim.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for
the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been finalized, this
transaction will be completed within five banking days of receiving
your response, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the
deceased.

When you receive this mail. Kindly reply to my private email address
below mbuko_buko@yahoo.co.uk

Please include your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication on
my personal email address:

Yours Sincerely,
Mazi Buko
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Absa Bank South Africa
mbuko_buko@yahoo.co.uk

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