The 419 Fraud

The 419 Fraud.

“I almost believed that i’ll be in the line up of young millionaires in the country, until my brother told me about this 419 Fraud, Advanced Fee Fraud or the Nigerian Scam.”

To give you a definite example is an email below.

Dear friend

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am the auditing and accounting manager in bank of Africa (boa) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($14.5m) million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days everything will be ok and the money will be in your account over there.

This money has been dormant for past seven years in our bank without claim. I want the bank to release the money to you as the next of kin to our deceased customer late Engineer David ching cheng, this man is from Taiwan, he died along with his families and his supposed next of kin in an air crash since Monday January 31st 2000.

I don’t want the money to go into our bank treasurer as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why i contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please i would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Upon receipt of your reply, i will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 30% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me.

I am expecting your urgent response, immediately you receive this message.

Best regard.
Mr ibrahim Aly

A Brief story. I received this email and to my surprised i replied back. The email was responded and now asking for my name, address and contact number which i answered without any second thought. The following day, i received a call from this guy who said to be from Nigeria. I remember, this guy really sounds like a Nigerian/African. At first, it was a friendly conversation. Then he told me about his family and his business in Nigeria. The call was followed the next day and now asking me to receive some important documents from him. The papers which was sent via fax were actually titles of his property and other businesses in Nigeria. He told me if i can transfer the businesses to my name. I can’t vividly remember what this thing came up in my thought and i answered yes. Hahaha i am an instant millionaire.

Now here’s the worst, i was asked to pay $2+++ for them to make a money transfer worth, Millions of US Dollar. Of course, i refused.

Okay, what to do if you receive a Nigerian Scam/419 Letter – Simple – Never ever respond to this email and never give any contact details, address, bank account number or any important details about you. Contact the email provider and ask the location of the user. Treat as spam mail. Last, report this to the Nigerian Embassy and to the authorities if you want to do so.

Now i’ve learned my lessons and i am just sharing this information for people to be aware of this scam. This is real serious. Many of the victims fall from this scam and usually targeting big countries like America.

The 419 Fraud by Pinoy Ambisyoso.

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