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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: Bc <greylingbc4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: greylingbc5@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 01:18:46 -0500
Subject: Good morning



Good Morning,

Please, this mail and the classified information contained therein
that I am about to reveal to you can either destroy me, ruin my
professional career or make me depending on how you receive and take
it. Please, I need you to read it attentively to know the reason and
purpose why you received this mail from me,I didn't come to you by
chance nor by accident, I have come to you because your names has
planted you in the center of relevant in my life and my professional
career as a banker at this very moment, but before I go further I will
like to introduce myself to you.

I am Mr. Bc Greyling a Fund Manager with Standard Chartered Bank (CI)
(www.standardchartered.com) and I handle all our Investor's capital
Project Funds which enables me to divert 1.2 Percent Investors Excess
Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby
anyone with a surname as you can be presented to claim the funds. On
this note, the total sum of $18.1 (Eighteen million one hundred
thousand united states of America Dollars) has been diverted
representing the 1.2 Percent Excess Return Capital Funds from the
Investor Capital Project Funds for 2006/2007. I need a reliable and
trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can
claim the funds as mentioned above. There is no risk attached and the
funds in question can never be dictated or traced. Our sharing ratio
is 60:40. (60 for me 40 for you) If you are interested, please reply
and send your direct telephone numbers to me for a smooth discussion
of this transaction in further details.

But if you are not interested or see this mail as a hoax simply delete
it and forget I ever contacted you. If after 72 hours I didn't hear
from you I will assume you are not interested, and then I will proceed
to look for someone else with the surname as you that might be
interested to work with me. This is a clean and straight forward bank
deal; it is safe and risk-free, as I have taken care of all necessary
steps to ensure a hitch-free movement.

Sincerely,
Mr. Bc Greyling

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