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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: "John Sand" <johnsand44@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: johnsand44@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 02:18:46 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Read Carefully

Attn:

I have strong and solid contact with Investments Bankers who i front to
provide clients with bank instruments.These include blocked and
reservation funds, cash backed certificates of deposit, bank guarantees
and standby letters of credit, issued by globally recognized banks.

The bank instruments are issued in the name of the beneficiary and are
fully lienable, callable, transferable and assignable, which allows them
to be used as collateral and leverage.

Leveraging Money is one of the Key Components to successful Trade Platform
Transactions. Most Trade Platforms Require that Traders have funds in
their accounts to be qualified to trade paper. We Can Provide Proof of
Funds that will be deposited in an account in your name. The blocked
funds will provide a leveraged trading opportunity because only the leased
fee for the Proof of funds is needed and not the entire amount of money to
support the trade.

The Proof of Funds may be used for: trading platforms; credit enhancement;
proof of capability to enter larger investments; real estate projects and
all sorts of opportunities. Our POF's, BG's and SBLC's are all from Top
Banks.

We are interested to work with you on the understanding we have the
instrument on you name. Your terms are considerable, let us know your
procedure and we shall in=turn inform you on the next step.

We shall have the instrument posted on Euroclear, Reuters and DTC, we
shall send the screen shot for your confirmation once we have your bank
coordinates. Moreso, we shall also print the pages you want from the DTC
and send an MT 799 or 760 to your provided account to have the funds
blocked for you to enable you either discount or trader as you deem fit.
We need you to partner with us through and through,financially to have the
instrument raised and close the deal on a win win situation. At least you
are aware the cost intensive to have instruments placed on bank verifiable
screen or confirmation channels.

In furtherance to this, these are pure life changing foolproof deals.What
it requires majorly is to be open to your bankers who will receive your
documents, that this is a deal, so that they can advise in line with
possibilities to be exploited to have it worked out successfully.On our
own hand, we are ready, willing and able to take calculated risk to
provide with is required.

We have bank officers who harmonize these deals without making it official
to the knowledge of the bank. But what happens is, they use their
positions to raise these instruments in line with the procedure, so that
whoever will make use of these instruments, will have nothing to worry
about. They will give every internal confirmation. For example like a BG,
they will put it on Euroclear, it will appear on Bank DTC,Reuters, which
can be verified and backed up with MT779 or 760.They will also provide the
Hard Copy with the back and front cover, but not through bank courier,
through a special delivery.

We advise that, if you have any prospective client, let us arrange it on
his name as we did in the attached sample copy we raised for Daewoo
Securities.This one is still on Euroclear you can ascertain confirmation.
What it entails, is you send to us your preferred verbiage and tell us
before hand how you know it will best serve your purpose, our bankers will
raise it in the format as you have chosen.

We also have some cheques these bank boys raise,it can be cashed when you
give me names of people who can cash them, it get to $100K 1Million. I
will have some by next week, i will send sample as i have attached these
BGS/POFS


We are very much open to discuss as how we can collaborate in any deal you
want to involve us. I am in-touch with some people who look interested in
investment but i need a kind of proposal to really impress on my invest
call.

We hope to hear from you, very soon,

Regards,

John Sand.


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