[ 419 SCAM E-MAILS ]

Below are just a few random samples of the many 419 scam e-mails that I received in just one day in January, 2008 - (the 15th). Each one of these is a scam of one kind or another.

While there are many e-mails here, these e-mails are just a very small fraction of the actual amount of scam e-mails sent out each day by 419 scammers. Thus, if you've received a suspicious e-mail that isn't listed here on these pages, it doesn't mean that it isn't a scam. In fact, if you receive anything even remotely similar to any of the scam e-mails you see here or if you arrived at this page via an internet search, I can 100% guarantee you...YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

To see what this site is really all about, visit The Games section.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job, loan, lottery prize, gold dust, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these e-mails have absolutely no connection with these scammers! None of the scammers use their real names. Sometimes they take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

[ BEGIN SCAM E-MAILS ]

Dear Friend, 
 
I am Mr.Mark Zbwenga. I am currently working with One of the Rural
 Banks in South Africa as a regional branch manager. 
 
And now, I am in grip of funds; Thirty-One Million Eight Hundred
 Thousand Dollars($31.8m USD) readily available for you and me to share, and I
 am seeking for your cooperation to transfer this cash money to your
 position. 

I realized these funds as part of unclaimed deposited funds by a
 deceased person who deals on Diamond and precious stones in Ghana before his
 death in 2003. Last year 2007 some funds where discovered unclaimed,
 and according to the Banking policy; such funds are to be taken to the
 "National Treasury"but was embezzled by some people, I don't want to fold
 my hands watch them again on this particular fund that has come as
 opportunity for me and you. 
 
Immediately I realized these funds $31.8m, I placed it on Sundry Escrow
 Account here in our bank in South Africa here without beneficiary
 information and no person knows about it and Because of my position as a
 regional manager in my bank,the code of conduct bureau forbids me from
 operating a foreign account,this is why I am contacting you.

Now I chose you as partner and what I want from you is to apply to our
 Bank head-office as the beneficiary of this fund to be transfer to you
 and only you as a foreigner can claim this money, while I will furnish
 you every prove/information as the true owner of this money. I am ready
 to share 25% of the thirty One million Eight hundred thousand
 dollars($31.8m) for you while 75% will be for me. 
 
As soon as the money $31.8m is transferred into your account, please
 keep my share, while I decide on which investment I will establish in
 your country. This transfer is a risk free transaction, this is bank to
 bank transfer. Kindly and urgently reply to me your willingness for
 successful transfer.
 
Yours truly,

Mark Zbwenga.

OFFICE OF CHIEF MUSA UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR)
PRESIDENT& COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY,

I Chief Musa Yar'adua, President and Commander-In- chief of the Armed
 Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria wish o bring to your notice that the
 members of Federal Executive Council office of the Presidency Federal
 Republic of Nigeria in conjunction with the members of National House of
 Assembly have unanimously agreed and signed into law that all
 outstanding contract payments, inheritance and accrued interest payments the
 Federal Government of Nigeria owed to our foreign contractors and next of
 kin's must be paid through swift ATM CARD. In this payment procedure
 your funds will be loaded and configured into the ELECTRONIC
 COMPUTERIZED AND CUSTOMIZED ATM PAYMENT PREPAID CARD.

All the payment instructions on how you will be withdrawing this funds
 $10,000 to $20,000 daily from the ATM CARD will be packaged and send to
 your designated address in your country or you come down to Nigeria by
 yourself to receive your ATM CARD hand to hand from the office of my
 Special Adviser on Economic Matters and Foreign Contract payments whom I
 have appointed to oversee this payment on behalf of Federal Government
 of Nigeria due to his past proven records as very honest, perfect and
 God's fearing gentleman.

This occurred due to series of reports and complains we have received
 from our respected foreign contractors and fund beneficiaries that they
 are unable to pay bank charges, handling charges, cost of transfer
 (COT) etc they are required to pay by our paying banks before they will
 receive heir funds and also to pay for procurement of some clearance
 certificates like Drug and Money Laundering certificate Anti Terrorist
 clearance certificate, IMF international Fund clearance certificate etc they
 are mandated to procure before they will receive their funds in their
 nominated bank account.

Furthermore in a bid to ensure that I maintain my word and keep the
 promises I made to President W. BUSH of United States of America and other
 World Leaders, which I promised that before my tenure in the office
 elapses by 29th of May 2007 I will do everything humanly possible to see
 that the Federal Government of Nigeria clears all the debts we owed to
 world bank, London club of creditors, Paris club, next of kin's and all
 foreign and local contractors that executed contract with the Federal
 Government of Nigeria. in light of this I have instructed the SWIFT
 CARD PAYMENT CENTER to issue in your favor a part payment of $10M by ATM
 CARD and it has been successfully issued in your name and it is
 presently in custody of my Special Adviser on Economic Matters and Foreign
 Contract payments CHIEF SOLOMON UGOH.

Therefore for the successful conclusion of this payment and to enable
 you receive your already issued $10m ATM CARD you are advice to contact
 MY Special Adviser on Economic Matters and Foreign Contract payment
 CHIEF SOLOMON UGOH upon the receipt of this fax today on his hot line
 2348037942048 or you send him email on email: atm.cardatm@yahoo.com to
 discus with him when you will be coming to Nigeria to receive your $10M ATM
 CARD from his office or you may request that the ATM CARD should be
 send to you by courier service if you are unable to come to Nigeria as
 quickly as may be demanded.

This order supersedes any other order or arrangements you have been
 previously given or told regarding your payment, therefore it must be
 strictly observed by you if you wish to receive your entitlement from the
 Federal Government of Nigeria. So you should contact CHIEF SOLOMON UGOH
 immediately you receive this and tell him that you receive a message
 from MUSA UMARU YA'RADUA the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria,
 which you were instructed to contact him for collection of your $10M ATM
 CARD through his good office.

On A Serious Note If You Refuse to Adhere Strictly to this Instruction
 and keep on communicating with imposter's, crooks and fraudsters that
 have deceived and misled you in the past i shall stop and cancel your
 atm card and you will not receive $1 red cent from the Nigerian
 Government and i
shall not be held responsible for any diversionary tendencies that may
 occur in your payment if you fail strictly to these directives. I
 expect to meet you when you come to Nigeria or to hear good news from Chief
 Solomon Ugoh that you have receive your ATM CARD by courier service.

Yours faithfully,

Best Regards.
DR. DAVE JAMES.
FOR THE PRESIDENT.

 From Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
Khartoum Sudan Greetings in the name of the most high GOD. The
source through which I got your contact gave me the confidence to
reach you. I am Mrs. Rebecca Garang the widow of late John Garang who
was untill his death the vice president of Sudan in Africa.

In brief, my late husband was a strong opposition for over 20yrs untill
he was appointed the vice president on the 9th of July 2005 by the
United Nations Peace Team as an avenue to quench the 20yrs civil war in
Sudan.He died on the 31st of July 2005 following a helicopter crash
alongside with 12 others just 22days after his appointment as the vice
president. What led to the helicopter crash is still unclear but I know
that my husband was the target.

Please what you are about to hear is TOP SECRERT,For more informations
in relation to what I am telling you I will want you to check this
site:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4737661.stm and i am under
strict surveillance by the Sudan government as you may know and all my
in and out going phone calls are systematically monitored. Please
permit me to go into details. After the death of my husband that
culminated to a chaotic atmosphere that resulted to a one-week civil
disturbances and ethnic violence in Sudan,Just few days ago as I am are
making arrangements to mark my late husband's annull remembrance this
month end, I conducted a search in his secret underground vault right
inside the family house which hasn't been accessed since his death, I
made some interesting discoveries, bank documents of $4.5Million dollar
deposited in a Swiss bank, documents of some landed properties located
in the heart of Ugandan capital Kampala and a cash deposit of
($5Million dollar) deposited with a prime bank in Abidjan capital of
Cote d�Ivoire in west Africa.Unfortunately the Swiss account has been
shutdown. I will explain more when I call you on phone.

My aim of contacting you is to nominate you as the beneficiary of this
deposit with the bank in Abidjan capital of Cote d�Ivoire for the
transfer of this money to your account ,which i intend to invest in a
lucrative business out there and If this offer is acceptable by you
notify me immediately with your full contact details to enable me reach
you for more discussions.

Be informed that your reward for this assistance is negotiable Remain
blessed .

Mrs. Rebecca Garang.

Hello dear new friend,
how are you today i hope that every things is ok with you as is my pleassure to contact you after viewing your email which really interest me in having communication with you if you will have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better and see what happened in future.
i will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication and to know all about each other,here is my email(divinegrace_4u@yahoo.com) i will be waiting to hear from you as i wish you all the best for your day.
yours new friend.
grace
please contact me with this emai(divinegrace_4u@yahoo.com)
please i will lik you to contact me on my email adress not in the site  so that i can tell you some other things about my self
 divine grace 

My dear friend, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from Benin. Presently i'm in China for investment projects with my own share of the total i,i didn't forgetyour past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us somehow. Now contact my secretary in Cotonou Benin Republic his name is MR.steven Paul,his email: (steven_pau3@yahoo.co.uk) ask him to send you the total $2.3millions united states dollars bank draft (check) which i raised in your favor for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter's appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr.Ezimmiri Benson and instruct him where to send the amount to you without any delay.Let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. In the moment, i'm very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, remember,remember that i had forwarded instructionto the secretary on your behalf,so feel free to contact him now to enablehim send your money to you. My regard to you and your family, Barrister Oxby. 

THE YAHOO!!! LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

��� WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!��

Dear Sir/Madam,

�We are please to announce you as one of the�thirty lucky winners in the 4th- category of the Yahoo!!!� Free-Lotto draw held on the 15th of�JANUARY 2008. All thirty winning addresses were selected through Computer ballot system drawn which is fully based on an electronic selection from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses of all the Yahoo Mail/Hotmail/Aol etc Subscribers�from all over the world which�consequently won you the huge sum of USD800,000.00(EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS). Your email address emerged along side�TWENTY NINE others as a category to winner in this year's Annual draw.

�

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To File Your Claim, please contact our Fiduciary Agent:

CONTACT: DR FELIX SMITH

E-MAIL: agentfelixsmith@movemail.com

You are to provide the following data:

1,FULL NAME:..............................

2,ADDRESS:...................................

3,OCCUPATION:............................

4,AGE:............................................

5,MARITAL STATUS:....................

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(ii). Email ticket number: Y! FL754/22/76
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You are advised to keep your winning information confidential till you claim your prize money. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!

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Mr Frederick Michaels

YAHOO! Co-ordinator

LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM

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ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION

You won $1,000000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
Yahoo! Mail Hotmail/Msn Messenger
 
 
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $1,000000.00!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
 randomly selected as the one of 50 top winners accounts who will get cash
 prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize
 money of ($1,000000.00) for the YEARLY LOTTERY WIN PROMOTION which is
 organized by yahoo messenger.com every year. 
 
YAHOO MESSENGER collects all the mail id of the people that are online
 on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribed to yahoo we only
 select twelve people every year as our winners through electronic
 balloting System without the winner applying.We are therefore
 congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were
 selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand
 E-mail addresses from Canada , Australia,United States, Asia, Europe
 ,Middle East , Africa and Oceanic as part of our international
 promotions programme which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our AMERICAN
 representative office in USA, as indicated in your play coupon and your
 prize of
US$1,000000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office
in USA.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
 year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
 
 
These are your identification numbers
 
 Batch number.....................06/05/046
 
 Code number.......................23109222
 Winning number...................Ball number 11Ball number 13Ball
 number 26Ball number 34Ball number 44Ball number 48 Bonus Ball number 2
 
To begin your claims, kindly contact the YAHOO CLAIMS AGENT, 
 
Dr Levi Anthony
Leviforphyl@hotmail.com
+2348024682479
 
 you are required to foward him with the following details:
 
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS.
4.DATE OF BIRTH
5.OCCUPATION
6.TELEPHONE NUMBER
7.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
8.MARITAL STATUS
9.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND CODE NUMBER.
10. SCANNED INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENCE.
 
As soon as you contact the Agent, he will advice you on what to do in
 order to get your prize money.
 
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
 confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
 released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
 claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by
 non-participant or unofficial personnel.
 
Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely 
 
DR Karl Barbin (PHD)

[ END 419 SCAM E-MAILS ]

This is just a small sampling of the hundreds of scam e-mails receive each day.

NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect and on occasion, a regular spam e-mail may inadvertently get included in these pages. If you'd prefer that your spam e-mails not be inadvertently included in these pages, don't send me spam.

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