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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: "shhsshshsh jsdhhddhdhd" <charles_brown01@msn.com>
Reply-To: charles_0brown@myway.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:04:20 +0000
Subject: Strictly confidential!

Greetings,

With all due respect,I guess my letter will not embrass you,since I have no
previous correspondence with you. I strongly believe,that i will not regret
approaching you in this matter.

I am Mr. Charles Brown, a canadian attorney based in manchester and the
personal attorney to late mr. Mark Michelle, a french national. Late mr.Mark
Michelle is a private oil consultant/contractor with the shell petroleum
development in saudi arabia, herein after shall be referred to as my client.

Unfortunately, my client and his wife with their three children lost their
lives in the Plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in
Cotonou,Benin Republic on the December 25,2003. You will read more stories
about the crash on visiting this website:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash / or
<http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/384/11653_Aircrash.html>
Since then, I have made several enquiries with his country's embassies to
locate his extended relatives, but this has also proved unsuccessful After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to personally contact you
with this business partnership proposal. I have contacted you to assist in
repatriating a huge amount of money left behind by my late client before
they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance and Security
Company where this huge deposit was lodged.

The deceased had a deposit valued presently $12,000,000.00million us dollars
twelve million united state dollars) and company has issued me a notice to
provide his next of kin or beneficiary by will, otherwise the account
confiscated within the next ninety working days.
Having been unsuccessful in locating any of my late client relatives for six
(6)months now, I am now seeking your consent to present you as the next of
kin/beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued
at $12 million united states dollars can be paid to you It is not necessary
to be a blood relation to late Mr.Mark Michelle, neither is it necessary to
bear the same surname with him. It is even not important for the stand-in
next of kin to be a French national.

Already, I have worked out modalities for achieving my aim of appointing a
next of kin as well as transfer the money abroad for us to share in the
ratio of 50% for me and 35% , while we would collectively donate the
remaining 10% to Tsunami Relief Course. Although, 5% has been mapped out for
reimbursement of any incurable expenses both local and international. It is
my intention to achieve this transfer in a legitimate way, all I required of
you is your honesty and co-operation, confidentiality and trust to enable us
see this transaction through.
The money transfer paper work itself will include a certificate of origin so
that the receiving bank does not ask question. Also the paper work will
include proper certificate that the fund being transferred is from
non-criminal sources. In short this will be a proper and legal money
transfer with absolutely no risk involved. The transaction is guaranteed to
succeed without any problem.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly notify me and endeavour to
send the following to me.

A:Your contact Phone and Fax numbers
B:Your location address

As soon as I hear from you, I shall provide you with further clarification
that you may need. Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and
appreciated.

Best wishes,

Mr Charles Brown

Note: In the event you are not willing to assist, kindly notify me to
prevent me from not making further contacts.
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