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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: "Dr.Kevin cooper shaw" <dr.kelvincoopershaw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 02:22:53 +0100
Subject: pauseNO@SPAMhardcoders.org, perlxruby@gmail.com, cpan@bbc.co.uk,
baden@cpan.org, badr.zarhri@gmail.com, bahootyper@gmail.com,
balaji.ramasubramanian@gmail.com, bk@mbl.is, baldwinsung@me.com, perl-dev@baltic-online.de


>From Dr.Kevin.coopershaw,
Phone: +447024071478
E-mail:dr.kelvin_coopershaw@hotmail.com


Please pay attention and understand my aim of e-mailing you today, my
name is Dr.Kevin.coopershaw, Private Auditor General CENTRAL BANK OF
ENGLAND, London. I ask you to consider this transaction with strict
and utmost confidentiality. Being a top executive at CENTRAL BANK OF
ENGLAND, I discovered a numbered account with a credit balance of
£14,600,000 .00 (Fourteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand British
Pounds) that belongs to one of our foreign customers (Mr. Paul-Louis
Halley) Deceased,an French businessman who was a victim of plane crash
on the 6th day of December 2002.

Please visit this wikipedia page below for more information about
Mr.Paul Louis Halley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Louis_Halley


With my position at the bank, I have all access, secret details and
necessary contacts to claim these funds without any hitch. I only need
your HELP as a foreigner to assume the beneficiary, because my
position as a civil servant and a staff of the bank does not permit me
or my relatives to make this claim. Therefore, I want you to stand as
the “Foreign Beneficiary", and I assure you of a perfect transfer
strategy that will be placed in your name legally, so that nobody will
suspect your claims.

For your assistance to achieve this greatness, your entitlement is 40%
of the total sum GBP£14,600,000 .00. Upon your consideration of this
offer, please provide me (Your full name, Contact address and your
direct telephone/fax number) to enable me re-profile the fund on your
name as the beneficiary and guide your contact with CENTRAL BANK OF
ENGLAND for the release and transfer of the fund to any bank account
of your choice. Considering the volume of discretion required for
success of this project, i ask your reply to my private email:
dr.kelvin_coopershaw@hotmail.com , feel free to call me for clear
explanations. Thanking you in anticipation of your immediate reply.


Yours truly,

Dr.Kevin. coopershaw,
Private Auditor General
CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND
United Kingdom

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