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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: "peter cummings" <cordinate@iwon.com>
Reply-To: info_cummings1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Hello..








Bank Of Scotland

PO Box No.5 The Mound

Edinburgh EH1 1YZ

Greetings,

I am Mr.Peter Cummings of the above mentioned bank in Scotland.i am a chartered accountant by training and the auditor general Bank Of Scotland,i am contacting you in respect to an an account opened in this bank in 1985 and the owner of the said account was late mr.Andrean schranner.a German who died in July 2000 in a plane crash along with his entire family and he left no reference for any living nor dead relatives or next of kin to stand as a claim/beneficiary to this fund,and the amount involve is (USD$ 45.000. 000.00) fourty five million US dollars. For more information about the crash visit this site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)



No other person/persons know about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved as well that his company know nothing as regarding this account.I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local account here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars (foreign currency)and the original owner of the account, Mr.Andrean schranner,was a foreigner



I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreign beneficiary, I want you to stand as the beneficiary of this fund,I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this fund into your account with appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange departments.I will tell you the next step to follow as soon as I hear from you



Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Peter Cummings

+447031910685

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