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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. James Dunn" <jamesfor91z@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:24:57 +0200
Subject: From:Mr. James Reply Urgent



From: Mr. James dunn
Area Branch Auditor
Barclays bank London
Transfer sum of £74Million (Seventy Four Million British Pound only)
Dear Sir/Madam ,
Compliment of the day, I know you will be surprise to receive this mail from me due to the Internet scams going on around the global world today, which has putting every one in fear for internet business nevertheless this is an excerption.
First I would like to introduce myself to you, I am Mr. James dunn an auditor with capitac bank here, based on my record with customers details as the bank senior auditor during out third quarter of the year audit, I have discovered a large sum of money to the aggregate sum of BPS£74Million (Seventy Four Million British Pounds)
This fund is in the bank account of late Mr.Bonfry Perez who was a senior coach of a division one football clube most coaches and footballers always use Barclays bank because Barclays bank is one of the major football league sponsors.

For over three years now this account has been dormant I have made an investigation with his details here in the bank and found out that Mr.Bonfrey Perez who was a brazillian Citizen died on cardiac arrest on the 25th of March 2005.

In his record with the bank there was not next of kin to claim his fund; therefore after a number of years the bank has full right to convert his fund into bank central treasure account for bank use.
I am contacting you with deep sense of honor, trust and sincerity for us to transfer this fund in YOUR NAME to your bank account in your country or any where of your choice for a good investment.
Hence we are total stranger to each other; I would like us to make the first transfer of BPS£74Million (Thirty Seven Million British Pounds) which is half of the total fund after which we transfer the balance of this fund
This fund transfer is 100% genuine and shall be handled in legitimate manner hence every details of the account owner are with me.

In your reply forward to me your bank account Information and your Personal details for the change of ownership, the sharing of this fund after transfer should be in 50%/50% ratio.
This transfer will only take us 5 bank working days via telegraphic transfer once the whole documentation process is done, if you are interested to work with me kindly indicate as soon as possible, should incase you are not interested kindly forget about it and still keep this highly confidential.
Have a good day
Regards, Contact Information
Mr.James Dunn
Tel + 447031895571 Email Address:jamesfor90@yahoo.co.uk


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