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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: Beth Eze <tyuu@fka.att.ne.jp>
Reply-To: betheze06@cantv.net
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 3:50:48 +0900
Subject: DEAR TRUSTED PARTNER

FROM THE DESK OF MR BETH EZE
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of Accounts/Operations Department of the leading banks

here in Africa . In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of

(US$16.5,million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our

foreign customer retired Atlanta physician Mr.George Brumley Jr, who died

in the sharter plane which crashed on mount Kenyan in the Kenyan city of

sumburu on 21st july 2003 .For more information about the crash you can

visit this site:

http://edit ion.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.cras h/inde x.html


Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next

of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it

unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the

deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately

we learn that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside

with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is

therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business

proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or

relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since

nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank

treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained

unclaimed after eight years, the money will be transferred into the bank

treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in

this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner

and a native of the country cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I

agree that 50% of this money will be for you as a respect to the

provision of a foreign account, 50% would before me Thereafter,I will

visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you

arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of

the deceased with a text of application that i will send to you,so i will

like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and

effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text

of the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice this

transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of

fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You

should contact me immediately as soon as you received this

letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.

1. Full Name
2. Date of birth
3. Your Telephone Number
4. Your Contact Address.

Yours Faithfully,
Thank You.
Mr Beth Eze


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