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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: Barrister Etundi Jhabi <jonathandavid645@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:34:31 +0000
Subject: REPLY SOON.


Hello Friend,

I fully understand that you receive emails like these daily, but please
mine is not a joke or a scam. I know very well about scam people play,
because am a banker, I see things every day

Am Hon Jonathan David, I work with a bank here in Togo as a branch manager,
the last time in 2007 the late Kaddafi visited Togo with his aids for the
(AU) meeting then, three of his security men came to open a secret dollars
account with my branch, and I was the person who attended to both of them.
What was deposited inside the both accounts then was huge $4 million
dollars each.

when the account was opened I took all the opening forms to meet them at
their guest house, because they do not want to use their real names to open
the bank account even the pictures was not their real pictures. All
arrangements were done properly for them because I was the branch manager.

Why am writing these proposal to you is because I want to leave the bank
work and do something else on my own very soon. so I need to act fast and
change both accounts details, to your own name, which will allow you to
have full access of the account from anywhere in the world, and make
transfer from my bank branch to your own account anywhere you want it. Even
the account ATM card will be sent to you and with the ATM card, you can
redraw from any machine anywhere you are. but the condition is myself and
yourself will share the funds equally after we must have moved out all the
funds in both accounts to a private account chosen by you.

You do not need to be afraid am the branch manager, I will do my home work
well, am the only person the bank can confirm from if they ask to find out
anything about the account. I did some investigations about the two aids of
the late Kaddafi, and found out that both of them died during the war in
Libya. So it is my chance to act fast and do the business with you, because
nobody can come for the claim of the funds if I resign, am the only person
to testify and present the real owners.


I will do all the paper work in your name and even change the signature
documents to be same with yours. i will want to see a reply from you,
showing your interest and a promise that you will not fail or disappoint me
when all is set. I don’t need to explain to you that these matter should be
kept as a top secret, nobody should see these email apart from you please.

Waiting for your reply with your direct numbers. Then I will tell you the
next action we should take because in 5 banking days we will smile, that is
if you comply. Please reply to my private box at :(barrjdtg@gmail.com) for
security reasons.

Best Regard
Hon. Jonathan David
Direct Line: +22890144960
Email: barrjdtg@gmail.com

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