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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: "Yahoo Msn Google Draws." <yahot1100@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:48:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: TRANSFER OF FOR INVESTMENT

 

ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO
FROM: MR. JOE LOOKMAN
DIRECTOR, DELIVERY/OPERATIONS
COIN SECURITY GROUP JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27-73-962-9922
EMAIL: joelookman@live.com

                         RE: TRANSFER OF US$10.5M FOR INVESTMENT.

I am MR. JOE LOOKMAN, the Director of Delivery/Operation Coin Security Group Johannesburg, South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute with years of outstanding service to the people of Africa especially top government officials and military leaders here in Africa. I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this transaction with anybody because it is of top secret.

To be explicit and straight to the point. Some time early 2005, a reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage. Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was the former/ late president of the Republic of Gabon, who died of illness. Since the death of our client President Omar Bongo Ondimba, none of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means that none of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly find out about the two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the two boxes is money and valued to the turn of US$10.5 Million US Dollar and was registered as treasure by our late client. Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly.

I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office as head of state. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to this money in our care.  I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for immediate investment with your assistance.. I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 30% of the total amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onwards investment. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute confidentiality on this matter.

I await your most prompt response through my private mobile phone number or my E-mail address as above written.  You can as well go through this two site and read more of late President Omar Bongo Ondimba:

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w24/bongo-president-gabon.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bongo


Yours faithfully.

MR.JOE LOOKMAN.
TEL: +27-73-962-9922
EMAIL: joelookman@live.com

  

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