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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: "BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT" <britishfinancemonitoringunit17@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: britishfinancemunit1@globomail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:51:24 -0600
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND NOW


THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT

Paulerspury
Northamptonshire
NN12 7NA
United Kingdom








>From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriott.
Executive Director

British Finance Monitoring Unit.

Be inform that it has come to our notice that a huge sum of money has
been credited in your name for transfer and is currently floating in
our data base.

Under the stipulated Law of the Government of Great Britain and other
member countries of the United Nations, any huge amount of money that
has been found in the international computer data system waiting to be
transferred without claims for a period of 6 months shall be
confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account.

We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately with your Full
Names/Contact Address/Occupation/international Passport or Driver's
license/Telephone and Fax Numbers for the release of your funds
within the 3 days of this notice or consider your fund confiscated.

We appreciate your urgent co-operation.

Sincerely yours,
Peter Marriott
British Finance Monitoring Unit.

[This e-mail contains confidential information intended only for the
addressee(s). Information in or attached to it may be privileged,
confidential or protected by law. If you are not the addressee (or a
person responsible for delivering this transmission to the addressee)
you are strictly prohibited from reading, copying, disseminating or
distributing it. If you have received this e-mail in error please
delete it and any attachments from your system and destroy any print
outs you may have made. Thank you


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