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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: "Regional Manager" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <karimzimba@mailbox.hu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:40:53 -0000
Subject: connact

Dear Friend,

I wish to contact you on a good business which I want you to assist me, receive this fund into your bank account in your country and I believing that this will really

work out between both of us.I am the Regional manager of Oceanic Bank International Zogbo branch, a family man and a man of peace. I discovered the sum of Twelve

million, Five hundred and Forty thousand united state dollars (USD$12,540.000.00) in the course of the last year 2011 business financial report.

I have packaged this transaction in a way that it will be of mutual benefit for both of us. As the regional manager (Zogbo branch) it is my duty to send in a financial

report to my head office in the capital city Cotonou at the end of each business year and I have placed this funds on what we call Escrow Call Account with no

beneficiary.

As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get

35% of the total funds as commission.This business will be a bank-to-bank transfer.All I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who

made the deposit in my branch so that my head office will order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept to work with me on trust I will appreciate it so much. Email me with the email address karimzimba@mailbox.hu so that i tell processes.

Thanks for your co-operation and I wait to hear from you soon.

Sincerely Yours,
Karim Zimba.
Regional Manager,
Oceanic Bank International,
Zogbo Branch.
Cotonou Benin Republic
karimzimba@mailbox.hu

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