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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: Mr Thabo David <fnbsouthafrica.thabo@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: freeman.manzini@webmail.co.za
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:31:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PARTINERSHIP


Dear Sir/Madam,
Since the present new South Africa. The SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK which over rides all banking system has cut across THE MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE (MPC) and most banking system.And major policy has been established since the beginning of this year by THE SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK (SARB) On January 1st 2006 as it first annual physical policy. Decisions to cut the policy/financial institutions to be able to meet up with the world standard banking system were carried out.
Basically a Repurchase (REPO) rate by 150 basic points from 10 percent TO 8.5 percent. This was the first Consecutive cut starting from January 1st 2007 which basically affects all banking Sphere which FIRST PROVIDENCE FINANCE and most commercial bank were not left out. The declining rate of the Rands to foreignexchanges 8.9 percent to 8.5 percent was a major issue.
The Rand initially ignored the interest rate but then Weakened to 7.20/Dollar from the beginning of this year. SARB attributed this to many factors that led to the January 2006 rate cut, such as Subdued inflation from the rest of the world, a strong Rand,an improvement in inflationary expectations and surplus productions. Capacity in manufacturing,prudent fiscal policy and slower growth in monetary aggregates.

Millions of Rands and Dollars held withvarious Bank which are not accountable to taxes, goes a long way in causing CPIX INFLATION which have move below normal rate. Most bank like ABSA BANK, FIRST NATIONAL BANK, FIRST PROVIDENCE BANK AND NEDBANK also report that lower interest rates influenced Households consumptions pattern with regards to other interest rate sensitive goods.
In view of all these limitations and constraint the South Africa Government therefore come up with this new 2007 policy for all major bank to summit all dormant Account for a certain period which have not been accountable to taxes to the SOUTH AFRICA RESERVE BANK. As such account is deemed closed and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury account.

Now, it is being speculated that such sum held in such account will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund if no one makes a claim. My Bank were I work has done a routine check on all dormant account and found out three major account worth million of Dollars that belongs to foreign customers who have died for the past fiveyears.
With My position as the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department and with other three senior colleagues of the Bank we conveniently summit only two to the Government.

The committee to review and summit this account was held by me, hence our ability to have submitted only two of this account. The other account we have planned to transfer the money somewhere and share between ourselves.
But we need a foreign partner, since the South Africa inheritance laws and the Banking laws does not allow us to have foreign account. All details of the said deceased are with us.

It is based on this background that this panel set up to submit such account in my department and I have decided to make an initial contact with you to establish a business relationship to claim the In essence, we will like to form a partnership with you where you can then present yourself as the next of kin through your relation as a business partner with the deceased so that the funds can be remitted into your account.

we have full access to the deceased biological data which we will furnish you and then use to present yourself as the rightful next of kin which give you a claim to the funds. Note that full details of the deceased how/cause of death, amount in question, How the funds come about, Proof and origin of funds,and when he die are with us.We therefore expect you to reply to this letter through this email address to discuss the transaction further with you.
After receiving your reply, we will contact you and furnish you with more details and the exact steps to take in completing this transfer.For deceased details and information about their death and names view this website for your perusal.http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/ DECEASED NAME BURKE SEAN Dead on August 6, 1997 in a plane crash .Please endeavour to keep this issuse very confidential.

Thank you for your co-operation,

Mr.Thabo M. David
Manager: Bills/Exchange
Foreign Remittance Dept
First National Bank South Africa.
A Division Of First Rand Bank Limited.




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