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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: francisco manuel <frncscmnl@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:40:19 +0700
Subject: KINDLY REPLY!!

Hello,

I am Mr.Adam L.Brown,the Branch Supervisor of the Capital One Bank UK.

I'm contacting you for a Business which I want to execute with you, I assure
you that this transaction
is real and risk free,and as such,you are not going to regret it.I only hope
that we can assist each other.

I and my Manager have agreed to contact you on this financial transaction
that will benefit 3 of us.


We discovered the sum of Eleven Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Dollar
[11, 750.000.00] in my office,which I will give you the full picture of how
it was made as soon as
I get your Response.

Now,We have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without
any beneficiary.

As officials,We[I and My Manager] of the bank,can not be directly connected
to this fund,
So we decided to contact you to work with us in order to assist and receive
this fund into your
bank account.

Mean While you will have 15% of the total fund for your assistance,80% for
us here,while 5% will be
set aside for any expenses incurred during the transaction.

If you accept this offer to work with us,We will need your immediate
response to avoid us looking
for another partner.

I will give you details as soon as I get your response.
Reply through the following email address: frncscmnl@googlemail.com


Best Regards
Adam Lancy Brown.

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