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NIGERIAN ADVANCE FEE FRAUDS


Nigerian advance fee frauds have been around for many years. They are also known as “419 scams” - due to a Nigerian law code which relates to this type of fraud.

Although a lot of these originate in Nigeria, you will see the same scam being operated from many other countries. There is a standard format:

  • Someone has died leaving a vast sum of unclaimed money in a foreign bank.
  • Attempts to trace family members of the deceased have failed.
  • The sender of the e-mail cannot withdraw the money as only a foreigner can do this.
  • They need your help to get the money and will share it with you if they can use your bank account.
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A relatively new innovation is the inclusion of a link to a news site which has a report about a plane crash (or some other tragic disaster) where the supposed owner of the money died. This lends some credibility to the story - but don’t forget, even if the report is real the money is not.

Have a look at the example below and you’ll see what to watch out for:

From The Office of Mr Ibrahim Rashid
Director Audit and Account dept.
African development bank (ADB)
West Africa.
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Transfer of ($ 25,200.000.00) twenty five million, two hundred
thousand dollars

I am mr Ibrahim Rashid, the auditor general of african development bank here
in burkina faso.

During the course of our auditing; i discovered afloating
fund in an account opened in the bank by mr john korovo, after going
through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner ofthe
account died in the (Beirut-bound charter jet) plane crash on the 25th
december 2003 in cotonou (republic of Benin).

Here is the
(website=http://www.cnn.com/2003/world/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.ht
ml).

And since then nobody has operated on this account again,

the owner of this account is mr john korovo a foreigner, and a traderwho
trade on gold and mining and he died, since 2003 and no other personknows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that mr johnkorovo
die along with his entire family.

The amount involved is ($ 25.2 m) twenty-five million, two hundred thousand
united states dollars only , i am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money can not be approved to a local person here, with valid
international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign account
because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account, mr
john korovo is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a
foreign account.

I need your strong assurance that you will never, never cheat me as soon as
this fund hit into your account. with my influence and the position of the
bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account
which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. the bank official
will
prove all documents of transaction immediately for you to receive this fund
leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence.

i will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately i hear from you that
you are ready receive this fund in your account .at the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,
while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transferring.

please if you are interested forward to me your;

full name:
sex:
company: if any
full contact address:
phone:
cell:
fax:
city:
state:
zip code
country:
occupation:
age
yours truly
MR IBRAHIM.

Here’s another one. Again, they have a link to a news website (CNN this time!). again, they want to give you lots of money just for being a foreigner! This is a fairly standard pattern - watch out for it and avoid these scams (you’d be surprised at how many are fooled).

FROM MR JIMOH ADAMS.
MANAGER TREASURY DEPARTMENT
UNION TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE,
LOME-TOGO IN WEST AFRICA.


STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear:

I CANNOT IMAGINE THE SUPRISE THIS WILL BRING TO YOU,BUT BE REST
ASSURED IT IS IN GOOD FAITH AND FRIENDLY INTENTIONS,FROM A FRIEND IN
DEAR NEED OF YOUR ASSISTANCE ,BEARING IN MIND THE CONFIDENTIALITY
REQUIRED IN THIS ABSOLUTE RISK-FREE BUSINESS.


I AM MR JIMOH ADAMS, THE MANAGER OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT OF UNION
TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE, HEAD OFFICE IN LOME -TOGO.RECENTLY,WE DISCOVERED A

DORMANT ACCOUNT WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY VALUED USD 9,000,000.00
(NINE MILLION US DOLLARS)THAT BELONG TO ONE OF OUR NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS
MR XAVIER ARIGONI WHO PERISHED IN A PLANE CRASH(KOREAN AIR FLIGHT 801)
WITH THE WHOLE PASSENGERS ABOARD ON AUGUST 6TH 1997.BELOW IS THE
WEBSITE OF THE PLANE CRASH

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/

SINCE THE DEMISE OF THIS OUR CUSTOMER,I PERSONALLY I HAVE WATCHED WITH
KEEN INTEREST TO SEE THE NEXT OF KIN,BUT ALL HAS PROVED ABORTIVE,AS NO
ONE HAS COME TO CLAIM THIS FUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME.BECAUSE OF THIS WE

HAVE DECIDED TO SEEK FOR WHOM HIS NAME SHALL BE USED AS THE NEXT OF
KIN,
AS NO ONE HAS COME UP TO BE THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED TO DATE .

AS A CIVIL SERVANT WITH THE BANK AND A TOGOLAISE I CANNOT STAND AS A
NEXT OF KIN TO A FOREIGNER.IT IS UPON THIS DEVELOPMENT THAT I AND MY
COLLEAGUES IN THIS DEPARTMENT DECEIDED TO CONTACT YOU TO COLLABORRATE
WITH YOU TO PULL OUT THIS DORMANT FUND,WE HAVE IT IN MIND TO GIVE YOU A

25% OF THIS TOTAL FUND IF THIS PROPOSAL MEETS YOUR INTEREST, URGENTLY
REACH ME THROUGH MY EMAIL ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER TO ENABLE ME GIVE

YOU THE FULL DETAILS OF THIS TRANSACTION AND HOW IT IS GOING TO WORK
OUT.

WHAT I WANT FROM YOU IS FOR YOU TO ACT AS THE DECEASED
NEXT OF KIN.AND IN REGARDS TO THAT FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE
COMMUNICATED TO YOU AS SOON AS I RECIEVE YOUR POSITIVE RESPONSE VIA,E-
MAIL OR TELEPHONE.

ANTICIPATING YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

BEST REGARDS,
MR JIMOH ADAMS
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