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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. Bruton" <brutthez@excite.com>
Reply-To: brutonhenry55@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:41:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Letter, From Mr Bruton (Read and Reply)












HBOS PLC HEAD OFFICE No 5 Mound, Edinburgh eh1 1yz

I am Mr. Bruton Henry ,the executive auditor and head of computing department of bank of Scotland here in United Kingdom. suggestion for you. I am the personal account officer to a great late Engineer who has an account in one of the topbanks here in united kingdom. His names is Late Mr. John Hughes was an Australian who was a chemical engineer by profession died since 1996. No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it. Mr. John Hughes has no other beneficiary and my investigation proves to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is thirty Million Pounds Sterling (£30,000,000.00). I am contacting you to stand and act as the next of kin to Mr. John Hughes, At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, while 60% will be for me and 5% incase of any expenses, As soon as I hear from you, I will then start to process the transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay. Kindly reply So that i can feed you with more details of the transaction. I awaits your response. Reply through this my private brutonhenry4000@yahoo.co.uk

Regards, Bruton Henry



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