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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: "Bruce Saun" <bsaun@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bsaun@shqiptar.eu
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:00:17 -0500
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Bruce Van Saun, the group finance director of one of the new
Generation Bank in United Kingdom (Royal Bank of Scotland).Though, this
medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, But I choose to reach you
through it because it still remains the fastest and most confidential
medium of communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and
private, and it should be treated as such. Well I have an urgent and
lucrative business transaction that will Profit the both of us after
completion. So I want you to patiently read through this email and get
back to me.

There is this immigrant Mr. Andreas schranner, a property magnate who was
based in the U.K. and happens to be one of our very good clients. He made
a deposit of fund valued at £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand Great British Pounds sterling) with our bank here in United
Kingdom and unfortunately on the 25th of July 2000, Mr. Andreas schranner,
his wife Maria, their daughter Andréa eich, her husband Christian, and
their children Katharine and Maximilian all died in the air craft (France
concord plane crash) bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise,
do check this link to see the highlight of what I am explaining

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).

This sum of £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds sterling) has been floating as unclaimed since the year
2000 in my bank as all efforts to get across the relatives of our client
who deposited the money has hit the stones. All attempts to trace his next
of kin were fruitless. My position here in my office requires me to
investigate and I therefore made further investigations and discovered
that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relation in
all his official documents including his bank deposit paperwork in my
bank. According to the British Law, the money will revert to the ownership
of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid
this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have
decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin so
that the said fund £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
Great British Pounds sterling) would be released in your name as the next
of kin and paid into your account. Be informed that there is no risk
involved as all necessary legal documents which will be used to back you
up as the legal beneficiary and next of kin of my late client will be
procured by my lawyer. All documents and proof that will enable you claim
this fund will be forwarded to you without any stress upon your response
to this mail. We shall share this fund based on a clear and legitimate
agreement with you and for the role you are going to play in this
transaction. Please send your confidential telephone in your reply to this
business proposal so that I will really know if you are capable and have
the quality of the kind of trust worthy fellow I need to partner with in
this kind of transaction. But truly I would like to let you know that I am
very afraid of disclosing this deal to you because I don’t really know if
you are good and trust worthy to partner with in getting this deposited
sum released as I have already made all my plans on the step by step
process that we need to execute this issue without any risk involved in
this claim. All I require is your sincerity, honesty, co-operation and
utmost good faith to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.

So I think I shall be waiting to know what is in your mind then I would
know if you are really ready and serious to proceed with me. Do not forget
that a transaction of this magnitude require utmost confidentiality and
sincerity. I look forward to your urgent response.

So I will be waiting to receiving your response as soon as possible so as
to know if I may start giving you the full details on how we are to
proceed.

Thanks for your understand and do have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Mr. Bruce Van Saun
Email: bsaun1@9.cn

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