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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: "ANDERSON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <george_anderson@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:58:05 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY

CAPITAL CITY BANK PLC
5/6 ROMES ROAD, V/ISLAND
PARK VEIW.W9,SE43
QRT: 92018345 QUEENSBOULE
tel-44-2075264531



HELLO DEAR.

My name is MR GEORGE ANDERSON i work with capital city bank plc .I have $10.5milion dollars to transferred into your account. This money belongs to our late customer Mrs. Sandra Williams who died many years ago and left the money in our bank as unclaimed. I am her account officer and the bank has instructed me to look for the next of kin to late Mrs. Sandra Williams which I have tried to locate any of her relation but all my effort fail.

I want to present you to the bank as the next of kin to late Mrs. Sandra Williams so the $10.5million dollars will be transferred into your account and both of us will share the money as agreed. You will be having 40%of the total sum while I and my colleague
Will have 55% and 5% will be for any expense incurs on this if there will be any. All the legal documents in respect to the success of this transaction will be provided by the lawyer.

If my offer is ok with you and i will like you to contact me on this my private email address (george_anderson@sify.com) on getting your reply and I will furnish to you more information on this. I promise you will never regret doing this with me. Just give this a trial and you will be convinced. This is 100% free risk and at the end of it all you will have a cost to rejoice.

Please if you can not do this with me. Just keep my secret and tell this to nobody.

Regards
MR GEORGE ANDERSON

RAED THIS AND GET BACK TO ME


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