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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: "george82_67@libero.it" <george82_67@libero.it>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:31:42 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Hello Dear,

Hello Dear,


I know that This letter might surprise you because, we have not met neither in
person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one day
that you get know somebody either in physical or through correspondence, I
found it interesting, and decided to contact you for
a business transaction.

Be so kind to contact me at your earliest-convenient for a possible business
deal involving money transfer of about £52,000,000 (Fifty Two Million British
Pounds).

I am presently in London working as an account operations with the Lloyds
Bank TSB at their offshore department located at the Gresham. With your sincere
assistant and co-operation,
I have secretly discussed this matter with the bank manager here and we have
agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us although due to his
position he did not want to take active part but as soon as you follow my
instructions everything will be successfully because we will be working hand in
hand with him.

We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of
these funds from the deceased and after due legal processes have been followed
the fund will be released to your account without delay and we will use it for
investment and to assist the less privileged in the society because if we left
the fund with the government it will be fortified for nothing and will be used
to suppress the poor masses in the society.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism
or any other illegal act. Finally, I will give you 35% for your corporation,
5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during this process 60% i will be
for me.

On receipt of your response I will furnish you with detailed clarification as
it relates to this mutual benefit transaction. I look forward to hearing from
you as soon as possible if you are interested.
you can contact me email: culmer2021d@Safe-mail.net

Best regards,
Mr.George Culmer
Finance Director,

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