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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: "Mr. Roger Thompson" <info.roger2013@gmail.com>
Reply-To: roger_thompson2013@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:47:11 +0800
Subject: Good Day Friend

--
Greetings...


My Name is Mr.Roger Thompson; the group chief executive director of
TSB Bank London.I wish to transfer and invest funds in your
organization and country on the share ratio of 40% for you and 60 % for
me.

I discovered that my branch in which I am the Chief Auditor had
£25,000,000.00(Twenty Five Million British Pounds Sterling Only) of
which no body/staff or director is aware of and will never be aware of,
I have also PLACED this fund on ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT without a
beneficiary.

As the Group Finance Director, I cannot be directly connected to this
money thus I am compelled to request for your assistance to receive
this money into your bank account. I will compensate you with 40% as
gratification while 60% will be for me. Please if you accept my offer,
kindly contact me for more details.

In course of this transaction, there are practically no risk involve
because it will be a bank-to-bank transfer. Please this is very
confidential transaction please.

I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction
without any delay. Please discard this message if you are not
interested. One Passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss
this matter with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject this offer,
please and please destroy this message as any Leakage of this
information will be too bad for me at my work place, as the Chief
Auditor.

I will appreciate your timely response.


With Regards,

Mr.Roger Thompson

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