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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: ,Dr.Ricardo Cole <cacole@mail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:52:27 +0200
Subject: Proposals
Reply-To: drricacole@gmail.com

Proposals,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family, I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before,But be sure that it is real and genuine business. Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and private. I am Dr Ricardo Cole an external auditor of a well known Bank here in the United Kingdom. In

one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with holding balance of £3,600,090.00(Three Million Six Hundred Thousand Ninety British Pounds Sterling) which has not been operated for the past three years now. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, is a foreigner Mr.Rafik Hariri, Born in Lebanon in 1944, The late Rafik Hariri was a Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon, and was five times Prime Minister of Lebanon. You can view this

site for confirmation.

http://www.rhariri.com/general.aspx?pagecontent=biography and since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds. The need to move out this money arose as the Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that some of the money held in dormant accounts would be used to fund youth and community projects, you can confirm this in the website below. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm



I WANT TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY INTO A SAFE FOREIGN ACCOUNT ABROAD BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY FOREIGNER WHOM I CAN TRUST,My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund {£3,600,090.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea account.Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary

because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give to you immediately.



At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 40%, 5% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 55% will be for me. The details of the transaction and fund will be communicated to you when you indicate interest and willingness to assist in this business venture.If you are serious and willing to do this business, kindly get back to me to verify your capability to handle this business: If you can not do this business, kindly discard or disregard the mail.



Thank you for your time and attention.

Kind regards,

Dr.Ricardo Cole

drricacole@gmail.com



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