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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?KARL=20WRIGHT?= <wrightkarlaust@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: wrightaustk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:01:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: wrightkarlaust@yahoo.es

From; Austen & Overy.(LLP)

- From; Austen & Overy. (LLP) Austen & Overy. (LLP) Private Consultants. One New Change London EC4M9QQ. England. Email: (wrightaustk@yahoo.co.uk) Tel numbers ; +447031842132 Attention CEO, I am Austen Karlwright, a private consultant for very eminent personnels in the Africa and Middle East region. These personnels have appointed me to source on their behalf a credible foreigner with whom they can jointly entrust a reasonable amount of money, which will be chanelled into a highly lucrative business venture. They have $100 million (One Hundred million United States dollars) transferred to Europe.They request strict confidentiality due to their public nature, they prefer to be anonymous hence I have been given the mandate to source for some one of high business experience with very good reputation. This is the proposal in summary: 1. My client (s) are top politicians/government officials in the Africa and Middle East region they want the funds to be invested through a well-established businessman abroad who can front for them without disclosing their true identity. 2. All that is required is your willingness to invest this money for them in a highly lucrative business venture under strict profit . 3. A power of attorney will be given to you to manage these funds on their behalf. 4. You will be awarded as compensation a certain percentage from the proceeds of the investment, which is still negotiable If you are interested, and you have the capacity to handle such huge amount of money kindly indicate by replying this mail so that we may proceed by reaching a valid agreement that will be binding to all the parties to this transaction. Respectfully, Austen Karlwright


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