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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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Fraud email example:

From: pete francois <petefrancois11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peterfrancois11@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:42:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hi,Good morning


Hi,Good morning,

How are you? Please, this mail and the classified information contained therein that I am about to reveal to you can either destroy, ruin my professional career or make me depending on how you receive and take it. I didn't come to you by chance nor by accident, I have come to you because your names has planted you in the centre of relevant in my life and professional career as a banker at this very moment.

The situation and the reason you are receiving this email from me is because few years back I was appointed as a Fund Manager as one of the managing directors of our bank - Standard Chartered Bank –RCI (www.standardchartered.com) to I handle all our Investor's Capital Project Funds which enables me to divert 1.9 Percent Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby anyone with a surname as you can be presented to claim the funds. On this note, the total sum of GBP£9.8 Million Pounds was diverted representing the 1.9 Percent Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for the period of time I was the Funds Manager. Now after I diverted the funds I realize that I cannot secure it in my personal account and I cannot move it out of our bank then I decided to use a different method to secure the money, I then secured it in our Magellan Trust Funds Account with the name of one of our deceased
costumer.

Now this money has been there for some times now so I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above as an inherited trust. There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be dictated or traced because the program has long been finalized and the case close but the money I diverted remain intact. Our sharing ratio is going to be 60:40%. (60 for me 40 for you). Please get back to me as soon as possible for more details and basic information;you can send your direct telephone numbers to me so that I can ring you for an oral conversation for better discussion and understanding of the subject matter.

But if you are not interested or see this mail as a scam, spam, junk or hoax simply delete it and forget I ever contacted you. If after 72 hours I didn't hear from you I will assume you are not interested, and then I will proceed to look for someone else with the surname as you that might be interested to work this deal out with me. This is a clean and straight forward bank deal; it is safe and risk-free, as I have taken care of all necessary steps to ensure a hitch-free movement and a successful implementation of this project.

Regard,
pete Francois.

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