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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: James Brown <jbrown.brown950@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:19:28 +0100
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?


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ATTENTION: RE: Transfer of 30,000,000.00 pounds to your Account.

My name is MR.JAMES BROWN,I work in a bank here in London and I feel quite
safe dealing with you in this important business. Though this medium
(Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication.

We want to transfer out money from our bank here in London. I was on a
routine inspection that I discovered the dormant domiciliary account with a
Balance of (THIRTY-MILLION POUNDS STERLING'S)on further discreet
investigation, I also discovered that the account holder has passed away
(dead) leaving no beneficiary to the account.

The owner of this account is a foreigner who is a self made billionaire,
who is now dead, he has a huge investment here in United Kingdom and all
over the world, I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as
we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real and a genuine
business.

However, if you are interested in this business we will start the first
money transfer with Ten Million Pounds Sterling [£10,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappointment from you. We shall also
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.

However, knowing all this, we will reach a binding agreement in this
regards. As a matter of urgency, I will inform you the next step to take,
while you send your private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for the deposit.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during this process. I am assuring you that the
transaction is 100% risk & trouble free, hence we are going to follow the
normal transfer process, and i will like you to keep this confidential all
the time because it is a huge amount of money.

I will be in your country immediately the fund is transferred into your
account for the withdrawing and sharing of the money in our subscribed bank
and other investment.

Contact me urgently for further detail through my E-mail(
davidgoldman47@yahoo.com.hk)

Cardinally Yours,

Mr. James Brown.

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