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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: "Schukkel E. Douglas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <schukkeledouglas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 06:15:58 -0500
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS PLS.

Dear ...,
I am aware that this is an unconventional way of relaying an important message such as this. I did try without success to locate your direct contact first in the internet but without success and I therefore, resorted to contact you via this letter. I am Schukkel E. Douglas, An investment consultant working with Bank UBS AG Zurich at their offshore department. I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. During one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with holding balance of US$ 600,000.000.00 {Six hundred million US Dollars only}which I can transfer to your account and share with you without any problems. If you are not familiar with Swiss Dormant Accounts and profile, please take a moment of your very busy schedules to read about Swiss dormant accounts on: website; www.crt-ii.org/2001_list/publication_list1_A.phtm I am constrained to issue
more details about this business until your response is received. If you know that you are capable to handle large or small amount on trust and can keep secret and ready to take 40% of any amount I transfer to your account from the dormant accounts and I will take 60%,

I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable to receive incoming funds, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law both now and in future.
For your information funds in bank accounts classified as dormant accounts are free funds for those who have key information on how to benefit from such dormant accounts otherwise funds in the account will be sent to NGOs because no body is operating the account for upward of 10 years and above of which the bank must have concluded investigation on such accounts to reach conclusion that the account has no heir and no body knows about it's existence or will come forward to claim it in future before it is classified as dormant account.

This business is real and risk free because there will be complete clearance documents to prove the legality of the large amount to any financial institution, and it will come as a foreign direct investment fund (FDI) as it may please you. http://www.dormantaccounts.ch/
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or:
http://www.crt-ii.org/2001_list/publication_list1_A.phtm

Firstly you need to create a new bank account or send an existing bank account information so that i will use it to prepare the payment documents and secure the payment approvals in your name or with the name of your company as the legal beneficiary.

I want you to bear in mind that this business is 100% risk free and secured.

The information i need to start the process are as follows:
(A) bank account where this fund will be transferred:
(B).Beneficiary Address.
(C).Your direct contact Telephone numbers
(D).Beneficiary Occupation
(E).The account name
(F).The bank name
(G).The bank address
(H).The account number
(I).The routine number and swift code (if any)

An empty account can serve so long as it is capable of receiving large incoming funds.

Communication between us should only be by email, phone and fax only at any time
for security reasons.
Phone: ..........................
Fax: ...........................
Email: ................................

I am waiting for your urgent reply by email or fax ,phone only not by post.

Yours,
Schukkel E. Douglas

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