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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: Kenti Winy Tay <kentiwiny201@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 08:13:00 -0800
Subject: From Mr.Kenti Winy Tay

Fr om Mr.Kenti Winy Tay

Compliment of the day. Excuse my intrusion into your private life
without your prior permission.I hope my mail will not cause you much
embarrassment as I write to you in good faith.
Dear,

My name is Mr.Kenti Winy Tay; I am the regional chief
accountant/Auditor manager of Bank international of Africa(BIA BANK)
Togo, branch in the Volta region of Togo. I am a 44 year's old married
man blessed with three lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don't
want problems, I only hope you can assist me. I have packaged a
financial transaction that will benefit you and me.

As the regional chief accountant manager of the Bank international of
Africa (BIA BANK) Togo, it is my duty to send in a financial report to
my head office in the capital at the end of each year. But in the
course of the last year 2013 fiscal report, I discovered that my
branch in which I am the account chief manager a dormant amount of
eight million united states dollar ($8,000.000.00USD) which my head
office are not aware of and will never be aware of. This fund I have
placed in 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 for you to assist me receive this money
in your country through your bank account, and get 30% of the total
funds as commission.

There is practically no risk involved, it will be bank-to-bank
transfer, all I need from you Is to stand claims as the original
depositor next of kin of this fund, who made the deposit with my
branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your
designated bank account.

I discovered the said amount of money during our last audit work in
the month of April 2013. I discovered also that this money belongs to
one Mr. Burckhard, Erich, I needs your help to come out to stand as
the next of kin to late Mr. Burckhard, Erich, customer of our bank who
died in plane crash on Monday 2ND September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while
they were flying from New York to Geneva..

I want to make the following points clear for you so that you can have
a better understanding of why am contacting you. Open bellow site for
confirmation crash.

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.

Kindly respond to me immediately. (So that we can go over the details).

The percentage Is negotiable, I hope to hear from you soonest.

Thanking you in advance.

Yours truly,
Mr.Kenti Winy Tay

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