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.

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.
Te (Removed)

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 herein burkina faso.
During the course of our auditing; i discovered a floatingfund in an account opened in the bank by mr john korovo, after goingthrough some old files in the records I discovered that the owner oftheaccount died in the (Beirut-bound charter jet) plane crash on the 25thdecember 2003 in cotonou (republic of Benin).

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

And since then nobody has operated on this account again,
the owner of this account is mr john korovo a foreigner, and a traderwhotrade on gold and mining and he died, since 2003 and no other personknowsabout this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no otherbeneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that mr johnkorovodie along with his entire family.

The amount involved is ($ 25.2 m) twenty-five million, two hundred thousandunited states dollars only , i am only contacting you as a foreigner becausethis money can not be approved to a local person here, with validinternational foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreignerwith valid international passport or drivers license and foreign accountbecause the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account, mrjohn korovo is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into aforeign 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 thebank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable accountwhich you can provide with assurance that this money will be intactpending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. the bank official willprove all documents of transaction immediately for you to receive this fundleaving no trace to any place and to build confidence.

i will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately i hear from you thatyou are ready receive this fund in your account .at the conclusion of thisbusiness, 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.