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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: "emos" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <brawley_charles@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:10:29 +0700
Subject: CHARLES BRAWLEY




CHARLES BRAWLEY.

Dear, My Name is CHARLES BRAWLEY, an accounts Clerk with
National Westminster
Bank (Nat-West UK), Private online banking Department. For past
years I have
been auditing an account belonging to one of my deceased clients
Pastor Erick
Michael who died of heart attack in 2005. He left no known Will
or Next of Kin
neither did he leave any beneficiary to his fund.


Until his death he left a closing balance of 25.5 Million United
States Dollars
in a private dollar account. As his personal banking officer for
more than 8
years , all inquiries to get in touch with any known relative or
associate of
him has proved unsuccessful. As I had always known his to live a
lonely
lifestyle, he never talked about any friends or his relatives
during my few
dinner outings with his when he was alive. I now solicit your
partnership to
stand as the beneficiary of this fund.


As an insider in the bank, all internal workings of this deal
shall be perfected
by me, while you handle the receipt of the fund into your
account. Our sharing
ratio shall be 60% for me and 40% for you. This is totally
risk-free. I await
your response.
If you are interested, you should please contact me through my
private e-mail
address: brawley_charles@hotmail.co.uk)

Regards,
CHARLES BRAWLEY

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