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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: Gilmar Bamba <gilmarbamba@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: Gilmar Bamba <gilmar_tm@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:06:36 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Goodmorning..


Good
Morning my dear,
Please, I need you to read this mail attentively because it took me allots of
time, effort and energy to locate your profile in your country site here powered by Google.

Few years back God lifted me up in
my office - Standard Chartered Bank - CI (www.standardchartered.com) and I was
appointed the Fund Manager to handle all our Investor's Capital Project Funds
which gave me the opportunity to be in charge of all our investors Excess
Return Capital Funds that runs into hundreds of millions of US dollars and I
realize this was my chance and opportunity to make wealth for my family. I then
systematically subsequently for the period of 5 years this program lasted
removed 1.9 Percent of the entire money without anyone knowing, and after I did
the calculation of the amount I removed it amounted to $9.8 Million Dollars, it
was then I realized that the money is huge as a result I cannot secure it in my
personal account otherwise the bank management will ask me where I get the
money. I then diverted it and secured it in our Magellan Trust Funds Account
with the name of one of our deceased costumer whereby anyone with the surname
as him can be presented to claim this funds as the beneficiary or next of kin.
This is where your name came in and my proposition is now at your disposal. The
Funds has been there for some times now so I need you to partner with me to
retrieve the money as an inherited trust because you share the same surname as
the deceased customer. You have absolutely nothing to worry about in regards to
risk because this is a clean and a straight forward deal as I have taken care
of all necessary steps for us to have a successful and hit free movement of the
money as you will claim it as an inheritance. Pls If you see this mail as a
scam, spam, hoax or junk simply delete it and forget I ever contacted you, if
after 72 hours I don't hear from you I will assume you are not interested and
then I will proceed to look for someone else but in a situation whereby you
desire to pull this deal through with me, please send me your direct telephone
number in your return mail using the below email address so that I can give you
a call for more details. Remain Bless.
Best Regards
Gilmar B. Traore
gilmar_tm@yahoo.com

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