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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: JAMES BARON <james.baron6@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: mrjamesbaron@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:41:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE KINDLY URGENT




FROM THE DESK OF

JAMES BARON

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT



Hello Dear Friend.



I am Mr. James baron, the Chief auditor of a bank here in

London I got your contact from a business directory. There

is an account opened in our bank in 1990,and since 1997,

nobody operated on this account again. After going through

Some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not

remit this money out urgently it will forfeit for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. George McClain, an engineer,

and a miner at Kruger Gold Co. a geologist by profession and

he died since 1997. No other person knows about this account or

anything, concerning it. The account has no other beneficiary and

my investigation proved to me as well that this company does not

know anything about this account and the amount involved is

(25 m) twenty five million British pounds.





I want to transfer this money into a safe foreigner account abroad,

but I don't know any Foreigner. I am only contacting you as

a foreigner as this money cannot be proved to Local banks,

but can only be approved to any foreign account because the

money is in British pounds and the former owner of the

account Mr. George McClain is a foreigner too. I know that

this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know

our selves before, never mind be sure that this it is a real

and genuine business.You are the only person that i have

contacted in this business believing God that you will not

get over me, please reply urgently so that i will inform

you the next step to take send also your private telephone

and fax number. It is important to inform you also that my

Retirement from service will take effect in June 2010.





So I need to pay inn this money into a reliable foreign

account Before the end of may, 2010 also I want us to meet face

to face or sign a binding agreements you can receive this

money into a foreign account or any account or any account

of your choice where the fund will be safe and I will fly

to your country for withdrawal and sharing. I am contacting

you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a

foreign account and a foreign beneficiary. I need your full

co-operation to make this work. The management is ready to

approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct

information of this account, which I will give to you later

immediately, if you are able, and with capability to handle

such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my

instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because I

don't want to make mistakes.





I need strong range land trust with my position now in the

office; I can transfer this money to any foreign account,

reliable account that can provide me with assurance

that this money will be intact pending physical arrival in

your country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of

that are involved immediately we receive this money leaving

no trace to any place. At conclusion of this business you

will be given 40% of the total amount 55% percent will be

for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might

incur during the process of transfer.



Best regards

James baron

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