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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: "Mr. Charles Stanley" <c.stanleyesq@lawyer.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: charlesstanley000101@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:00:52 +0530 (IST)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU DOING

Dear Fund Trustee,


This is in regard to the meeting between Barclays bank and Charles Stanley
(Cole and Cole associate). This meeting was held yesterday and the agenda
was centered on your inability to claim the Graham Robert trust fund
amounting to the sum of (155,600,000 USD) willed to you for the purpose of
charity.


After series of debate regarding the delay in making the payment for the
trust fund to be transferred to your online account, it was done to us
that you are voluntarily refusing to pay the required charges to complete
this transaction, because what you were asked to pay to have this fund
transferred to your account is nothing compared to the Graham Robert fund
that you are willing and about to forfeit. This draw us to the fact that
you don’t believe this transaction for anything, and it’s at this point
very annoying to note that you are skeptical about this life changing
transactions that we have long informed you about. It will be joke for you
to just have a huge fund of this nature transferred to your account
without having to spend nothing on it, this transaction is not kids play
and I advise you to don’t treat as such. This is the major reason why the
British High court is mad to note that you are refusing to pay a mere fee
to have the charity fund amounting to (155,600,000 USD) transferred to
your account.


To this end the conclusion was based on the fact that if you are not
serious or you don’t trust this transaction enough to want to spend little
of your money to have the fund transferred to your account, you are to
inform us that you decline and state your reasons so we can contact the
British High court and explain things to them and have them take total
right to the fund since you are not ready or still skeptical to spend your
money to finance this transaction.


Mr. Charles Stanley was able to reach a compromise with the transferring
bank and he made a better suggestion that since it’s not possible to
transfer the fund unless the outstanding charge is paid, a part of the
required fee should be allowed from your end to finance the transfer why
the balance be paid as soon as you have access to the fund since you have
barely few days deadline to complete the transaction. To this end the
Barclays bank wishes to enquire from you end as to the exact amount you
can afford to pay within the deadline date so as to enable the
transferring bank to complete your transfer and have the fund transferred
to your online account.


To this end we await your response as to the exact amount you can afford
to come up with so this transaction can be concluded as soon as possible.


Have a nice day

Yours Truly
Charles Stanley

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