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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.Michael Brown" <pmpbrown011@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrmichbrown2008@accountant.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:40:28 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION VERY URGENT ....


From: Mr.Michael Brown
#31 Council of Churches
P O Box 62098 Marshalltown
2107 United Kingdom
Tel"+447024022875

RE-TRANSFER OF £52,954,000.00 {Fifty Two Million Nine Hundred and
Fifty Four Thousand British Pounds Sterling}

Good day.

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a
relationship. I Mr.Michael Brown, the personal account
officer to the great late Deceased who has an account in one of the top
banks here in London, United Kingdom.

The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2004 without a written or oral
WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the
money is floating, and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing, and Government of United Kingdom will confiscate The
funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to
happen being that this is a great opportunity in my life.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund
{£52,954,000.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea
account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction.

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly Confidential. I am sure and
have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction
of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for onward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will
never let me down in future because this business is my life.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation
through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me
as well that he was single as at the time f his entry into the United
Kingdom. As a matter of fact, I have ecided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment.

Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of he
bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to his account
which I will give to you immediately, We will start the irst transfer with
Thirty Two Million {£32,000,000.00}.

Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we hall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of {£20, 54,000.00} to
your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner ecause this money
cannot be approved to a local person here due to aw in United Kingdom.

At the conclusion of this transaction, your total share will be 40% of he
total transfer sum,while 60% for me and my partners who is helping n makeing
this sucessful.

If you are interested, please forward the following nformation as below:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ....................
{7} Your telephone Number. both Home, Office &
Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers.........................
{8} Your Occupation..............
{9} Your Valid ID ...................

Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be Activated by he
feeding of your data into payment system, followed by a signal hat will be
sent to the paying bank to remit the funds into your ominated bank account
within 7 official working days of receipt of he above information.


Best Regards,
Mr.Michael Brown.

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