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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: "Garry J Maxwell" <garry.jmaxwell@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: "Garry J Maxwell" <garry.jmaxwell@live.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:58:57 -0700
Subject: An Interesting Financial Offer



Tel: +(44)-870-235-4268
Fax: +(44)-703-195-4283

Dear Friend, Greetings!!!
I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics. But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I am Garry J Maxwell a banker by profession and I work with one of the Top British commercial bank in London as a Director of Private Accounts in my Bank. While surfing the internet searching for a reliable person to handle a financial transactions involving a whopping sum of United state Dollar, then I came across your profile and it was wonderful.Infact what i saw in your profile, I should be very happy to have you as my foreign business partner and based on this I hereby proposed to you this transaction. Please with all due respect, if you are interested in being my foreign business partner, please get back to me immediately with your full names / address, private phone / fax numbers where I can easily contact you. Please forward your reply to my personal e-mail address below. As soon as I receive yours, I will give you more details about the transaction.
For confidential purpose, please send your reply only to: 

Have a great day.
Yours faithfully,
Garry J Maxwell.

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