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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "mike" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dvd_mike@live.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:36:35 +0100
Subject: IT IS A GOOD OFFER

Compliment,

How are you today? I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we have not met, but be rest assured that this is a genuine business. Though, this medium has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and private.

I am an external auditor of a well known Bank here in the United Kingdom , In one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with holding balance of £22,759,000.00(TWENTY TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) which has not been operated for the past three years now. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, is a foreigner by: Name Thomas Edward Galvin vice president and corporate bond broker, Cantor Fitzgerald, is from United State Of America, who transpired around 11th September 2002, Four days later, information started to trickle in, that he was among victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. View this site for confirmation. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1898.html) and since then nobody has done anything as regards to the claiming of this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds.


The need to urgently claim this funds is because of the new order by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown stating that most funds in dormant accounts should be used to fund youth and community projects, view the below website:{http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm }


At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 35% of the total sum while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 60% will be for me, The details of the transaction and funds will be communicated to you when you indicate interest and willingness to assist in this business venture. If you are serious and willing to do this business,

Kindly get back to me to verify your capability to handle this business:
If you can not do this business, kindly discard or disregard the mail.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Kind regards,
David Mike

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