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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 Robert Lee Neufeld" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertleeneufeld@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 06:54:53 +0800
Subject: Re: Wed, Feb 25, 2015**

Dear Friend,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you,to
transfer to your overseas account,sum of($10,123.000.00 USD)
Ten million one hundred and twenty three thousand United
States Dollars) from one of the Prime Banks here in London
United Kingdom

I am Mr Robert Lee Neufeld (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of
one of the prime banks here in London United Kingdom, during
the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds
in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and till date no
body has operated on the account and after going through old
files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the
account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family
without leaving a [Heir/WILL], hence the floating of the
funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of the account was a foreigner an estate
consultant , who bears the same surname with you.

Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and
confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand
as a relative , thus I can work out the release of the funds
, No other person in the office knows about the account ,
please be assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will
work it out , all I need is your cooperation because the
account content can not be approved to an indigen here as
his next of kin . At the conclusion of this project, I
propose a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or
we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 55% for me.

One more thing please; I beg you don't consider this against
moral justification , they are many other aspects of life we
may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged
and the needy in a society than having it shared as an
unclaimed bill among Government.



I look forward to your earliest response

Yours Truly



Mr Robert Lee Neufeld

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