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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: "Ms.Rose Martins" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rosemartins2@yandex.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 04:19:57 -0700
Subject: Ms.Rose Martins Letter of Payment Notice

Bank of America
201 SW 5th Ave
City Fort Lauderdale,FL 33312.


RESPECT


Hello dear, with due respect am writing to transport this business application to you it will interest me for you to reason with me and pursue this deal up as I made up my mind to bring this to you I am Ms Rose Martins 29yrs old I am a computer analyst by profession citizen of BVI Caribbean I schooled in UK.

Please I will need your support in my life by bringing this proposal to you I have a contract with Bank of America to reset their telex electronic transfer system date base and my contract with them will last for only three months I start my job on the 5th of July during my service I discovered your details through finance payment inheritance approval certificate Bank Of America dept Authority Department, after going through the file I confirmed $10.5m reviewed by the transfer payment data base, on this regard I have to make a research on their telex transfer online application electronic hard disk and confirmed that it was revise by the telex head operation director which the telex electronic transfer disk was marked red.

My dear, this has cost me much time to relate this matter to you as I felt so bad towards the action taken by the bank of America telex director after I discover this I made more research to know his intension not to complete this transfer to you and I confirmed that he want to divert the fund into another account my dear am bringing this deal to you because I am in position to work for the released of your fund to you if you will keep this confidential between us I have the structures to carry on this transaction successful but I will need your assistance by protecting my interest so that no one in this bank will know my dealings with you.

In terms to carry out this job, I need your assurance that my interest will be protected and if you will assure me on this I will advice you on how best to carry on this transaction successful but you will compensate me as soon as your fund is with you.

My dear, to your best understanding to know how I will carry on this transaction I will obtain a telex electronic computer hard disk inline of the transfer as your account detail was wiped out to BOA Electronic telex disk online data base when I get this disk, I will reset the electronic data base security code to the online system and log in your details on the system for the transfer, after I complete the transfer I will wipe out the telex report transfer notice and destroy the disk so that there will not be any trace.

My dear, I will give you more details as soon as you are willing to get this deal done with me and I will send you all my particulars that will prove the legitimacy of me also, I will like you us to know each other through online yahoo chart so that we can view ourselves and built the trust.


I wait for your urgent reply which will enable me to proceed in this.


Yours Faithfully


Ms. Rose Martins.

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