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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: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:39:07 +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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