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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: "Farai Canaan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fcsocials853@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 00:10:47 -0700
Subject: from Farai Canaan

I work for a wealth management company in France, In our management domiciliation work with our client in Moscow, I met the financial director of a corporation in the Russian federation. I got a private brief to request your participation in bridging of funds to his private investments project location in North America. This client has served for 16 years with Yukos and 4 years with his present employer, He has received confidential information that he will be retired from service in early 2010 and he is preparing himself for the future. During the last three years of his service, he was responsible for contracts evaluation and payments. His job was to vet contracts awarded by the former owners of his corporation (It was owned by Yukos before the takeover by its present owners) with a view to scrutinize, appraise and validate the contracts claim for payment. He has successfully applied for contract payment claim and received payment approval Key
Contract Number with the cooperation of company key officers. Their actions over three years have yielded funds presently sitting in the corporations wealth management portfolio held in a Bank in United Kingdom. Our company manages this Portfolio for the corporation.

I need a firm commitment from you that you can keep sealed lips on this to any third party; I will also need assurances that you can handle the movement of funds from the United Kingdom to North America. This is a legal business but our financial director friend wants to avoid any link to his name between the funds movement from its United Kingdom location to its investment destination in North America for political reasons. You will receive an attractive six digit figure payment from this business service that is expected from you. (I will provide appropriate guaranty for comfort in this business)

Please reply me and provide a telephone number for me to call you to explain detailed procedure. I got your contact address through the global network group of our company with D&B and I made this contact with you privately and most discreetly without the knowledge of anyone in and outside of this company. Please reply privately and let me know your decision on this planned project. contacted through my email :farai.aaai@gmail.com
Thank you

Farai Canaan

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