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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: David Mckay <admin@forexltd264.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <davidmckay@linuxmail.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:45:04 +0100
Subject: Re:


ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
DAVID MCKAY

Hello ,

Based on our communication on http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/, I am David
McKay, The Personal Financial Services and Business Financial Service
businesses, as well as RBC's Canadian sales and branch distribution. The
World Largest Fund Management Company with over $1.2 Trillion Capital
Investment Fund. Nevertheless, as the RBC Financial Services Officer, I
handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and extracted 1.2% Excess
Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annual on each of the Investor's
Marginal Capital Fund.

As an expert, I have made over $10,500,000.00 Million from the Investor's
EMRCP. Every end of year, each corporate investor is expected to receive
interest from his/her total Investment Capital Funds. However, I made an
excess of 1.2% from the Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually which
have exceeded our targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds. This
extra of 1.2% from the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal profits
for managing the Capital Investment.

I cannot claim these $10,500,000.00 Million without presenting someone to
stand as an Investor otherwise our establishment will convert the funds
into the company's treasury. This is why I have come to you for the deal to
take place.

Meanwhile, I have worked out the modalities and technicalities whereby the
funds can be claimed in any of our 6 clearing Houses without any hitches.
Our sharing ratio will be 60%:40%. If you are interested, you should send
your direct phone number so we could discuss more on phone as regard the
transaction.

N.B: All correspondence must be on this box. This is a serious transaction
and I need a trustworthy partner.

Sincerely,

David Mckay
davidmckay@linuxmail.org

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