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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: "Michael Anderson" <michaelanderson1@live.com>
Reply-To: anderson.micheal489@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 14:16:57 -0300 (PYST)
Subject: Hello




Acknowledge Letter,

I am Michael Anderson, a former Business Relationship Manager for the
Trust Development Bank in China. I am retired now and leaving in London,
I am contacting you with regards to sum funds of a client with an
investment placed under our banks management 7 years ago. I would
respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential
and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of
this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this
communication.
In 2003, the subject matter; first name BERNARD, last name MADOFF came to
our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking
division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 51.1
million United States dollars, which he wished to have us invest on his
behalf.

Based on my advice i gave him as his account manager, we invested the
money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our
first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at this
point at $25.2 after two and a half years. In late 2008, he instructed
that the principal sum ($51.1) be liquidated because he needed to make an
urgent investment requiring cash payments in Hong Kong.He now had $25.2
million left which was his interest and he instructed that these balance
of $25.2 million be sent to a bank in the EUROPE for further investment.
I got information from the bank in China and was told that my friend
still hasn't claimed the balance of $25.2 million dollars from he bank in
the EUROPE and these money is still in the banks security company. On
further inquiries and investigation i found out that Mr. Bernard Madoff
was involved in a big fraudulent scam that rocked the United States,
which caused him his career and is now in jail. Thus the reason I am
writing you is because i have all the facts to claim this money in the
EUROPE BANK as a former bank adviser to Mr Madoff and i am now retired
from banking but cannot make claim because of my former status as his
bank adviser.

What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to the details, you
will be made the beneficiary of these funds. I will send you copies of
documents needed and the information needed to contact the bank in EUROPE
for the balance fee of $25.2 million. You do not have to have known the
decease. I know this might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on
this. For all your troubles I propose that we split the money in half. In
the banking circle this happens every time.Please forward to me your
full names and telephone number.

Nobody is getting hurt; this is a life time opportunity for us. I hold
the KEY to these funds, and as a UK CITIZEN we see so much cash and funds
being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep communication for now
strictly by the contact email below. Please, again, note I am a family
man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to the consequences, but I know within me that nothing
ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy
or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my
private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one
accord, we should act swiftly on this. Please get back to me immediately
via my private email below. Thank you.

Yours Truly,
Michael Anderson,
UK.


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