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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: "Mr. L.Castello" <lcastello@videobank.it>
Reply-To: lcastello1@videobank.it
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:27:14 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT REQUEST...



With Due Respect!!

I am Mr. Louis Castello, a London based financial management consultant with
one of the leading independent providers of investment management,
accountancy,
tax, corporate and financial advisory services to private clients, corporate,
professional practices, and non-profit organizations.I represent a group of
investment group (BGL Investment Partners SA) an independent
investment company
based in Luxembourg with worldwide stake in infrastructure assets,oil & gas
Industries and telecommunications.

Based on the above explanations,I was consulted to source on their behalf a
reliable,honest and trusted individual or organization to entrust some funds
for the purpose of investment into any of the above fields advice on the
acquisition of new infrastructures. You will receive 100% of this fund to
invest on behalf of my clients upon the successful
transfer of this fund.

So my question to you now is as follows:-

1. Are you ready to receive and invest this fund on behalf of my clients?
2. Can you supervise the investment on behalf of my clients?
3. Can you give some investment ideas apart from the above mentioned?
4. Can you handle this multi-million dollar project?

If your answers to the above are YES, then you should get back to me so that
the sum of $260,000.000.000 [Two Hundred & Sixty Million USD$] currently at
the offshore department of Banque Generale du Luxembourg can be channeled to
your custody under a special and secure transfer process. So, if you can
receive and invest this fund, kindly reply me with your acceptance letter so
that I can give you more information on how we can proceed.

If you can work with me towards the realization of this project, then reply
back for more directives.

Best regards,

Mr. Louis Castello.
Director, Investment Management
Smith & Williamson.
London.

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