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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: "M G"<mg@aol.com>
Reply-To: <guerrero@acnrep.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:31:24 -0500
Subject: Hello !

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am writing to introduce you to a life time profitable business opportunity which is 100% secured.
My name is Paul William, I'm a prominent businessman here in England, and happily married with 2 beautiful kids Jessica and David.
I used to work with the Barclay's Bank here England as a financial expert and an auditor before I retired and decided to do my own business after acquiring lots of knowledge and information from the banking sector, but due to my wife's medical illness which has put me a in tight financial situation, I had to look into files that I discovered during my service and realize I had some valued information that worth Millions of Pounds sterling.
Please, I incur you to be willing, co-operative and understanding with this proposal so that we can accomplish this business opportunity without problem. To start with, I want you to be aware that Trust, Diligence and Prompt Adequately is the key for us to archive our aim on this venture. Now to business, during my service at the bank, I had access to the bank's secured database server that gave access to inter- connect to the HM revenue British Custom's and the British Ministry of Finance in order to monitor and control financial activities, during these years, I saved some valued information I discovered which are base on pending funds and consignments that are floating in the systems of the agencies as excess foreign funds for year without activities / claim.

My reason of contacting you is to work as partners, so tha you can take possession of the funds / consignments and give me 60 % of the total deal after completion. I will furnish you with the necessary details you need to verify and take possession of these funds / consignment without any problem, it will be taking one at a time. I would appreciate if you could send me information about you, E.g Your Full name:, Address:, occupation:, Telephone Number:, Gender: and your Age:
I would welcome the chance to work as dynamic partners where we would make a significant contribution in claiming this fund successfully.
I will patiently await your reply in order to proceed with the activation of the account.
Thanks for your understanding and co-operation.

Best regards,
Mr. Martin Guerrero

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