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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: "Rev. G.T.Brown" <goldenbrowninuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:53:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GOOD MORNING


                                   FOR YOUR KIND AND URGENT ATTENTION













Dear friend,





Please permit me by by
contacting you through this medium, and my
contacting you is based on my desperation to locate and relative of our
late
customer Late Mr. Oliver Beradelli, who passed away on a business trip
to India  where their flirt crashed couple of months ago killing every
body on board, and without
leaving any trace.



Mr. Oliver Beradelli deposited the
sum of $62,645,000.00 (Sixty two million six hundred and forty five
thousand ) United States dollars with us and i happened to be his
account officer.






So it was after my exhaustive
efforts to no avail that  I came across your profile and after going
through it i felt i could talk with you in order to front you as the
relative of
our deceased customer to the board of directors  so that the money
which he left behind with our institution will
be released to you and after the transfer i will come over to meet you
in your country for us to share and invest the money. I do not want
this money to be confiscated by the government and due to my position,
I can not handle
this myself therefore seeking your urgent response to enable us have
this money moved out before the government place a hold on it.  We are
going to secure all the necessary legal documents to cover you up, so
there is no need to entertain any fear, i am going to guide you as an
insider to make sure money is transferred to your bank account within
the next 7 days upon receipt of your confirmation of interest to work
with me.







I am going to give you details on how to proceed on this subject matter
once you indicate your readiness to work with me. You can contact me
direct on this telephone number for further discussion. +233 548235865







I look forward to hearing from you soon.



Thank you for your time.







Rev. G.T Brown.



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