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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: "CAROL PARKER" <carolparker10@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: carolparkere@rocketmail.com
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:48:21 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR


*Hello Dear,*


*I am Mrs Carol Parker,a Chartered Portfolio Manager(CPM) with the External
Division of Nationwide Ich,one of the oldest Clearinghouse and a major
financial service provider in Europe. My primary duties are investment
counselling and Portfolio Investment management in the FDI sector, these
entails managing all sort of investment portfolios (such as stocks, bonds,
futures and future options etc) with a limited power of attorney to operate
clients accounts on the purpose of buying and selling of shares and other
investment purposes that will yield interest to capital without requiring
further client's approval for investment purposes.*


*I am a British citizen who travels across Europe on a regular bases due to
the nature of my job, What I am about to disclose to you is highly
confidential and I trust that you will not betray the confidence I am
reposing on you. In carrying out my duties as external investment manager,
I handle all our investors Direct Capital Funds and was able to
confidentially extract 1.2% from all Investment Returns Earned from several
investors on the underlying assets over a period of 3years. From this
expertise arithmetic, I am able to accumulate the sum £2.8M from the
investor's EMCRP. The company annual report has been duly concluded and
dividends declared while clients are much happier with the annual returns
than the previous years under
review. *


*I am here by asking you to come and stand as an investor to receive this
fund as annual Investment Proceeds from ABN AMRO EQUITIES UK LTD.*

* *

*I assure you that all well made and successful bank directors and stock
brokers all over the world has participated in one time or the other in this
deduction racket and are still in it today, once clients are satisfied with
the annual earnings the deal is as good as being concluded.*


*I have nurtured and protected this deal for the past three years and if I
am assured of your interest, honesty and capability, If we both agree on an
acceptable memorandum of understanding, I will open an On Line Investors
Account with Nationwide Ich UK using this accumulated Fund as initial
account deposit for investment. I have master plan for
the withdrawals which I shall forward to you for your perusal.*


*My major reason for contacting you is that I have decided to move this Fund
at this time out of England and to my partner's country because final
external audit has been conducted without trace of the said
deductions. What I need is someone trustworthy to receive the money for me
in a legitimate manner of a stock investor and I hope you might fit that
profile.*


*I have made all the arrangements and plans to enable me to move the money
from England to a country of my choice without hindrance. For your
assistance and help in receiving this money, you will benefit a reasonable
part of the total money as we may both agree. Please help to clear this
money it has been here for three years without traces. This is a racket for
the intellectuals, core/real investors and still remain sacred to the
public.*


*I am not in any way seeking for any financial assistance because i have
made all necessary arrangement on this,all i want is your assistance.*


*Should you be interested, please email me with your consent for further
discussion.*


*Yours faithfully,*

*Mrs Carol Parker.*

* *

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