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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: "RICHARD BRIGHT"<rbright29@aol.com>
Reply-To: <rbright29@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:18:25 +0100
Subject: GREETINGS FROM RICHARD BRIGHT

Dear Friend,

Greetings,

I am sorry for using this medium of communication in contacting you, but be
informed that it is based on the urgent nature of this deal that I am about
to present to you now for your consideration.

First, it will be my great pleasure to introduce myself to you. I am Mr.
Richard Bright, native of United Kingdom and the executive fund Manager with
Safeway Financial Services,BD15ZG,Bradford,UK. I handle all our Investors
Capital Project Funds. I was able to divert 1.2% investors Excess Return
Capital Funds to our Safeway Trust Funds Account whereby I can easily
present anyone of my choice to claim the funds. On this note, the total sum
of 5.745Milion GBP has been diverted representing the 1.2% Excess Return
Capital Funds from the Investors Capital Project Funds for 2005/2006.And
this said funds has been moved to a Security and Finance firm account in
Asia.I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out
with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above.

There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be detected or
traced.Our sharing ratio is 70:30. If you are interested, kindly reply back
to my private email-(rbright29@googlemail.com) to enable me provide you with in
further details on how we shall proceed to realize the transaction.Please if
you are not interested don't use this form to betray me.

Sincerely,
Mr. Richard Bright.

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