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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: "auditor" <auditor@aruba.it>
Reply-To: mrraymondwalls0001@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 23:57:17 GMT
Subject: From: MR Raymond Walls


From: MR Raymond Walls.
#39 Brown Road London
SW1W 0NR
E-mail: mrraymondwalls0001@gmail.com
Hello,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before.
I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I
am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I
need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of Sixty Two Million
Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds Sterling (£62,950,000.00) to
your account.
The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here without
anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest
person to our deceased customer Mr. Kurt Kahle (the owner of the account)
who died along with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on 31st July
2000. The Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the
deceased customer. For more information about the crash you can visit this
site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and
have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a project of
this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either
provide me with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account
immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this
important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never
let me down in future when the funds will transferred into your account.
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of his company. My investigation
through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me
as well that he was single during his first visit in UK. As a matter of
fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment plan.
If you are interested, please fill and forward me the following information
as below to start the transfer process accordingly.
{1} Your Name/company's name and full address:.............
{2} Bank Name:..........
{3} Bank Address.........
{4} Account No:............
{5} Swift Code or Routing #
{6} Account Holder's Name: ............
{7} Your telephone Number both Home, Office &
Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers:........
{8} Your Occupation:.........
I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested.
Regards,
MR Raymond Walls.

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