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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Graham Beale" <g1beale@blackglobalnetwork.net>
Reply-To: g1beale@k.st
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:40:38 -0600
Subject: For Your Kind Attention.

For Your Kind Attention.

I am writing to seek your cooperation over a business deal. I am a top executive in ne of the leading the banks in the United Kingdom. In my department, I discovered an unclaimed sum of GBP15,500,000 (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds), in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa.The late Dr. George Brumley, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but resident here in London, United Kingdom, until his death was my personal physician.See weblink(http://www.cnsnews.com/viewprint.asp?page=\nation\archive\200307\nat20030721d.html).

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his "Next of Kin" to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash having nobody behind to claim the money.

The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the Next of Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner. Therefore,your utmost confidentiality in this deal is required.

If this interests you,kindly forward your tel, fax and email address to me for the way forward as regards the consumation of this deal.

I await your immediate response.

Sincerely Yours,

Graham Beale

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