WARNING! - 04.09.2009

Advance fee fraud („419-fraud”) is a well-established scam that purports to offer the opportunity to earn a substantial sum of money for allowing funds to be transferred to your account and then passing on a proportion of these to another party, keeping the remainder as your commission. The approach can be made by letter, fax, email or telephone and invariably claims to be from a high ranking government, or bank official, NGOs, sport club executives and may appear genuine if taken at face value. The scams prey on victims' self esteem and often claim that you have been recommended by a business contact as a highly respected and trusted individual with high integrity. Victims of this fraud  - sometimes potential contracted business partners, experts, football-coaches etc. - are repeatedly coerced to part with sums of money in order to help the transfer process and as the fraud progresses, a considerable amount of money can be lost. In such cases, please contact the Consulate immediately.

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