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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 George David" <barrgeorge1962@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:43 -0800
Subject: Urgent

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr George David a private consultant to Newton
fund manager’s ltd company here in England. I and my
colleagues discovered abandoned sum of 12millionGBP POUNDS
STERLINGS (Twelve Million POUNDS STERLINGS) in our file in
the account department during our fiscal year account
reconciliation that belongs to our foreign customer, LATE
MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany who died along
with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.
Below is a website which I will appreciate you going through
to read the information.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

The reason why I am contacting you is based on trust to
enable my colleagues and i present you as the next-of-kin to
him for safety and subsequent disbursement of this fund
Nobody has come to our company for the claim of this
fund We have in our pocession necessary and legalized
documents that could back-up the claim of this fund and
which will present you as the rightful next-of-kin to the
deceased customer as we will not want this fund to go into
company's treasury as unclaimed bill. If this remains
unclaimed after eight years, the company will confiscate it.
The request for a foreigner or any indigene and resident can
apply for claim with uttermost confidentiality or a total
stranger as next-of-kin in this transaction is occasioned by
the fact that late ANDREAS was a foreigner.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see
this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law. I agree that 35% of this
money will be for you as a respect to the provision of your
assistance , 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the transaction, another 5% to help the less
privilege and to assist charity organizations here in U K
and
abroad while the rest 55% will be for us.

Thereafter, I will come to you for disbursement according to
the percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate
release of this Be notified that the fund has since be
packaged by the cooperation of of our diplomats attaches and
our laboratory experts and deposited with a private
organization in a trunk box for safekeeping as art works
materials meant for investment abroad since it could not be
declared cash because the private organization is registered
for delivery of goods and such valuables Contact me on my
private email for the procedure to claim and further
discussion Or you can send your number to call you.
Trusting to hear from you immediately for more detailed
discussion.

PRIVATE EMAIL:barrgeorge1962@myway.com
Regards,
Mr George David


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