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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. James Garner" <jgarner0001@att.net>
Reply-To: <jagarner2@mail.mn>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:44:56 -0800
Subject: I await your urgent reply-=

Hello,
 
I am James Garner, a computer scientist with HSBC Bank Dubai-United Arab Emirate. I am 26 years old, just started working in the Swift Transmission and remittance room of HSBC Bank Dubai-United Arab Emirate. I came across a payment file valued at US$26.8million dollars which was marked X and the transfer released disk painted RED, I took time to study it and found out that the fund was an accrued dividend from a back-log of an Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) of an average of 1.2% on each private investment and corporate portfolio under our administration and control and all fees and certificates has been cleared, but the fund has not been released and cannot be released for some obvious technical reasons.
 
However, I do not intend to work here all the days of my life, I can release this fund to you if you can give me 30% of the total sum of US26.8million dollars and certify me of my security and how I can run away from this Dubai-United Arab Emirate if I do help you release the fund to you, because if I don't run away from this country after I made the transfer, I will be in serious trouble under the Islamic sharia law and my life will be in danger. Please this is like a Mafia setting in Dubai-United Arab Emirate; you may not understand it because you are not in Dubai-United Arab Emirate.
 
The only thing I will need to release this fund is a special TRANSMISSION HARD DISK we call it (120 GIG), which I will need to buy two of it, recopy your information, destroy the previous one, and punch the computer to make the fund reflect in your bank account within 24 banking hours.
 
Upon confirmation of the fund transfer in your bank account through the TRANSMISSION HARD DISK, I will clean up the tracer and destroy your file, after which I will run away from United Arab Emirate to meet with you in your country. If you are interested, do get in touch with me immediately, you should send to me your convenient telephone number for easy communications and also re confirm your banking details as stated below, so that there won't be any mistake.
 
(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
(3) Company's name, position and address.
(4) Profession, age and marital status.
(5) Your bank account details where the fund transfer will be remitted to you immediately as follows;
Bank Name
Bank Address
Swift Code
Routing No
Account No
Account Name.
 
I await your urgent reply to jagarner@mail.mn
 
Sincerely,
 
Mr. James Garner
Computer Scientist
HSBC Bank Dubai-United Arab Emirate
E-mail:jagarner@mail.mn
 

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