The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     MR. FRANKLINE DORMANN <sssee@eircom.net> Reply-to:     <franklinedorman@hotmail.fr> Subject:     GREETINGS TO YOU FROM MR FRANKLINE DORMAN. Date:     Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:54:21 +0000 (04:54 EST) GREETINGS TO YOU FROM MR FRANKLINE DORMAN. PLEASE READ MY MAIL AND REPLY ME THROUGH MY ALTERNATIVE WHICH IS ( franklinedorman@hotmail.fr ) Dearest Freind My name is Mr.Frankline Dorman, I am the General Manager BANK OF AFRICA. I have concealed Business suggestion and deal for you, The Deal is for the Mutual benefit of both of us. In our bank We had a Mr.Allen P Horvath, customer that had a deposit of 15.million dollars  before he died On April 25th 2005, our customer, his wife and three children were involved in a train accident in Japan during their visit to Japan which all the families were dead. The policy of the Bank however stipulates a limited time period for such inheritance to be made or the fund will be written off going by the record of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up. In this consideration, I am contacting you to seek for your kind understanding and sincere co-operation to claim this inheritance for our mutual benefit. If you can stand as the next of kin in this project, success is assured because I am in possession of the personal file jacket of the deceased which contains every needed information about the account and the deceased and you and I stand no risk of any kind because I have enough information to support you in claiming the inheritance. The amount to be transfered into your bank account is $15 million dollars. For your help and assistance to me I will compensate you with 15% of the total money when transfered into your bank account after every expenses are reimbursed. All I need from you is a safe bank account where this fund will be transfered to you. All I needed from you is to furnish me with the following informations: Your Account name, Your Account number, Your Bank address, Your personal Mobile telephone numbers and fax number and your address so that I can give them the bank for them to transfer this money into your account. As soon as this fund is transfered into your bank account I will come over to your country for the sharing of the money and to invest my own share of the money in your country. Kindly indicate your willingness and we shall proceed with the initial step for the claim.The entire project is expected to last for about ten working days. Please you are advised to reply me througth my alternative email address which is ( franklinedorman@hotmail.fr ) for urgent reply. Thanks and God bless Best regards MR.FRANKLINE DORMAN   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust / diamonds, 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.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam crap mistakenly published on this website as an advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't send me your spam crap.