[ 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 16th). 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!!!

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FROM MR.AHMED BABRA.
ACCOUNTS/AUDITS DEPARTMENT,
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK,
COTONOU,REPUBLIC OF BENIN,WEST AFRICA.
 
My Good Friend,
 
Greetings To You And Your Family. It Is After An Abortive Discreet And Thorough Investigations At The Foreign Affairs Office Of The COTONOU,REPUBLIC OF BENIN Chamber Of Commerce And Industries Inoder To Locate A Reliable Foreigner, Who Will Assist Me In Executing This Deal, I with Absolute Confidence In The Dignity And Intergrity Of Your Personality, Wished To Contact And Introduce To You A Great Beneficial Business Which Fundamentally,Is Based On Mutual Trust And Sense Of Purpose.
Briefly,

I am Mr. AHMED BABRA,director In Charge Of Auditing And Accounting Section Of ADB BANK PLC,COTONOU,REPUBLIC OF BENIN,WEST AFRICA. With Due Respects And Regards,This Business Transaction Will Be Very Beneficial To Both Of Us At The End.
During Investigations And Auditing In This Bank,I Came Across A Dormant Account With A Huge Amount Of Money Belonging To A Deceased Customer,"REPUBLIC OF BENIN BASED" Business Magnate Who Died With His Entire Family,In The Boeing 727 Air crash On Friday 26th December 2003.( 11:15 AM EST (1615 GMT),This Is The Crash Website,Pls Kindly View It For Your Confirmation:
 
 www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/.
 
No Body Was Recovered From The Crash.This fund Has Been Dormant In His Account With My Bank without Any Claim Of The Fund That Is In Our Custody Neither From His Family Or Relation Before My Discovery To This Development. Although,I Personally Kept This Information Secret To Enable The Whole Plans And Ideas Be Carried Out Successfuly During The Time Of Execution.The Said Amount Is Fifteen million United States dollars Only( US$15 M ).
Meanwhile All The Arrangement To Put Claim Over This Fund As The Bonafide Next Of Kin To The Deceased Customer,To Get The Required Approval And Transfer Of This Money To A Foreign Account Has Been Put In Place By Me. Also Directives And Needed Information Will Be Related To You As Soon As You Indicate Your Interest And Willingness To Assist Me In This Deal. In fact I Could Have Done This Deal Alone,
 
But Because Of My Position In This Country As A Civil Servant,We Are Not Allowed To Operate A Foreign Account And It Would Eventually Raise An Eye Brow On My Side During The Time Of Transfer Because I Work In This Bank.
This Is The Actual Reason Why It Will Require A Second Party And A Foriegner,Who Will Be Portrayed As The Next Of Kin To The Deceased Customer.
I Will Not Fail To Inform You That This Transaction Is 100% Risk Free And Your Entitlement As Gratification Is Negotiable Upon Your Acceptance Of This Proposal. Upon The Conclussion Of This Transaction And You Confirm The Fund In Your Bank Account,Some Percentages Out Of The Total Involved Fund Will Be Aside To Take Care Of Expenses That Was Incured During The Processing Of The Claims And Transfer Of The Fund.
 
Please,You Have Been Adviced Absolutely To Keep This Transaction As Top Secret Because Iam Still In Service And I Intended To Retire From Service After Concluding This Deal With You. I Will Be Monitoring The Whole Situation Here In This Bank Until You Confirm The Money In Your Account,And Ask Me To Come Down To Your Country For Subsequent Sharing Of The Fund According To Percentages Which We May Agree On,And For My investment In Your Country Also.
 
All Other Necessary Information Will Be Sent To You When I Hear From You.
I Suggest You Get Back To Me As Soon As Possible,Stating Your Wish In This Transaction Proposal.
You CAN Contact me With this Privet E=Mail (ahmed_babra@yahoo.fr)
 
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Ahmed Babra
+ 229-970-173-50 

Dearest Sir/Madam,

I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not
 acceptable to you as I make this proposal to you as a person of
 integrity. After due deliberation with my children, we decided to contact you
 for your needed assistance to secure a family treasure. First, let me
 start by introducing myself, I am Mrs. Shelly Ahmad, a mother of three
 children. I am currently working as a social worker with UNHCR (United
 Nations High Commission for Refugees)
My husband was also a United Nations Relief worker in Middle East unit.
 He was the deputy regional supervisor of UNHCR (United Nations High
 Commission for Refugees) you must have hared about the renewed fight
 between the Islamic group in Lebanon and the Lebanese military.
My husband Suleyman Ahmad was shot on Tuesday 22nd day of may 2007,
 when a united nation's aid Convoy was attacked by shells explosion. The
 aid convoy was on the official mission to deliver food and medical
 materials to the refugees when the incidence happened in the Nahr al-Bared
 camp in northern Lebanon. He was taken to hospital but he died the next
 day. You can visit the following website to see the news;
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/05/un_convoy_attac.php
The reason why I am contacting you is that I found documents leading to
 some safety deposit that was made by my late husband with a private
 Security firm. The deposit amounted to $9.5million United States dollars
 in cash. He told me about it in his dying bed and insisted that I
 should find a reliable foreign partner to assist me to invest the money. At
 first I could not believe him but after his death, I was going through
 his library collection and to my astonishment I discovered a
 Certificate of Deposit for the safety deposit with this private security firm,
 and other documents relating to the safety deposit in a book. The safety
 deposit which is a trunk is stocked with hard currency (US Dollars)
 totaling $9,500,000 which was generated from cash payments from several
 contracts he executed for United Nations.
The reason why I am contacting you is for you to assist me to invest
 this huge money in your country in your name because I am afraid that the
 United nation might start to investigate my late husband's bank
 accounts and any of my family's bank account to find out if he or we is
 holding back any of their funds. I do not want to return this fund to them
 because I want to take possession of it as a compensation for the lost
 of my husband who died while was on active duty for United Nation. Also
 the fund can be a future foundation for my three children.
I am not a business women and again the situation in our country is
 hell and hopeless. It is not safe to keep or invest the fund in a war turn
 zone like Lebanon. Your assistance is needed to clear this fund out of
 the Security for subsequent investment.
If you are interested to work with me, we can set up a business
 partnership in your name in your country and it is my wish to invest in
 property and real estate investment. I will compensate you for your role in
 this venture and if you are interested, I will inform you my
 arrangements on how I intend to send the money to you in your country for safe
 keeping and investment.
For your assistance, my family will offer you 30% of the total fund. If
 you are interested please reply me so that we can plan on how to
 proceed but if you are not interested feel free to decline this offer as it
 is not mandatory.
Thanks and regards,
Shelly Ahmad.

FROM: BENSON EKO.
CHIEF AUDITOR MINISTRIE OF FINANCE ECONOMICS
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC.

Dear Friend, 

Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as
a surprise and if it might offend you without your prior consent and
writing through this channel.

I am BENSON EKO CHIEF AUDITOR MINISTRIE OF FINANCE 
ECONOMICS COTONUO-BENIN REPUBLIC.I got your
information when I was searching for a reliable,honest
and trustworthy person to entrust this business with.I
was simply inspired and motivated to pick your contact 
from the many names and lists in the website.
I wish to transfer the sum of $14,300,000.00USD
(Fourteen Million Three Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars only.into your personal or company`s bank
account. 

This fund was a residue of the over invoiced
Industrial Contract bills awarded by MINISTRIE OF
FINANCE ECONOMICS COTONUO-BENIN REPUBLIC to some
foreign firms. This DEAL was deliberately hatched out
and carefully protected with all the attendant lope 
holes sealed off.As the chief auditor,I have the
cooperation and mandate of the Financial Director and
the Secretary. It was my consensus to seek the
assistance of a willing foreigner to provide us with
the facilities to transfer this money out of West 
Africa.This is borne out of our beleive in the
non-stable and sporous political nature of this
sub-region.

The original contractors have been duely paid by the
Banque Centrale Des Etats De L`Afrique De L`Ouest 
(Central Bank of the West African States)This balance
is suspended in the escrowaccounts awaiting claims by
any foreign company of our choice.I intend to pay out 
this fund now as the organisation is winding up its 
activities.

Based on the laws and ethics of employment,we as civil
servants working under this organisation, are not
allowed to operate a foreign account.This is the more
reason why we needed your assistance to provide an 
account that can sustain this fund for safe keeping
and our future investment with your comprehensive
advise,assistance and partnership in your country.I have however
 agreed,as the account owner in thisdeal to allow you 40% of the entire sum as
 compensation,why 55% will be 
held on trust for me while 5% will be used to defray any incidental
 charges and cost if any. 

Upon the receipt of your information, the certificate
of job completion of one of the contracts will be
issued in your for the transfering of the fund to your 
nominated account withoutdelay.
As with the case of all organised (sensitive)and
conspired DEALS,we solicit for your unreserved confidentiality and
 utmost secret in this business.We hope to retire peacefully and lead a
 honourable 
business life afterwards.There are no risks involved.

REPLY ASAP.

With regards.
MR BENSON EKO

My Friend,
 
With all due respect,i got your contact in my search for an honest
 person abroad,who can assist me in a good business deal 

and my instinct motivated me to write you. I hope you will be kind
 enough to digest my mail and assist me in this regards.
 
My name is Joy Adams,i am 21yrs old, I am a citizen of Sierra Leone. My
 Late father, Chief Peter Adams was a prominent Gold 

and Diamond dealer,he was also one of the paramount chiefs in my
 country before his untimely death in a plane crash. 
 
My parents were victims of the deadly plane crash that took the lives
 of over 110 passengers in Cotonou, Republic of Benin on 

December 25, 2003.My parents were on their way to Beruit (Lebanon) to
 celebrate the Christmas holiday when they met their 

sudden death. The untimely death of my parents has made me an orphan
 besides i am the only child of my parents. You can check 

about the plane crash in the following links below. 
 
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/-46k 
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm - 31k - 
www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/200312/26/content_293549.htm - 20k - 
 
After the untimely death of my parents,I discovered some important
 documents through my father's personal lawyer indicating 

that my late father had deposited the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION US
 DOLLARS(US$22MILLION) in a Trust company affiliated to 

worlbank london for safe-keeping because of the continoues
 socio-economic and political instablity in my country. 
 
With the assistance of my father personal lawyer,i have made successful
 claims of the money in worldbank london by virtue of 

my legal rights as the only child and next of kin of my late parents.
 Now, i have decided to transfer the money out of 

worlbank.Futhermore,you can contact the bank for confirmation and i
 will isuue a letter of authorization on your name 

through my lawyer,this will enable the bank deal with you directly.i am
 giving you this offer as mentioned with every 

confidence on your acceptance to assist me and help me manage the
 money. I do not want the money to be transfered to africa 

due to the economic instability of afirca.

I am willing to give you 25% of the total amount if you will be willing
 to help me transfer this money into your account in 

your country or any good country. I would also like you to arrange for
 me to come over to your country where I intend to 

settle down and complete my education , 5% of the money shall be set
 aside for all the expenses that might be incurred in the 

course of transferring the money into your personal account or any
 account you may provide and shall be used to reimbursed 

ourselves for all incurred expenses while 70% shall be for me. 
 
Bear in mind that the task of investing the money wisely in your
 country or any country of your choice shall be solely done 

by you and such investments shall be solely controlled and managed by
 you because of my inexperience until i finish my 

education.There will be a partnership agreement between me and you in
 the areas of investments and profit sharing. 
 
I hope you will handle this matter with altmost confidentiality and
 transparency. If you are willing to assist me in this 

matter, please do not hesitate to contact me for further details. I
 shall be very glad indeed to hear from you as soon as 

possible. 
 
Yours sincerely, 

Joy Adams

[ END 419 SCAM E-MAILS ]

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

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