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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: "SUSAN MOOREHEAD" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:22:57 -0700
Subject: THIS IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER

Dear Sir,


First of all sir, i have fully recovered from my illness and that is the main reason i am working harder in making sure i complete

this transaction for you without any further delay.Thanks for your email which clearly stated exactly what you really wanted to see, i

am indeed going to have Mr. Michael Mansoor to Make correction of your real amount of $36,000,000.00 only simply because the other

part of 700 million will be officially return to Uk Treasury bills for safekeeping until the main owners are ready to retrieve their

fund from treasury bills, we are indeed going to proceed with your full payment of your $36 million dollars only.

Don't Worry sir, i am indeed going to personally handle this matter myself, i will visit Mr. Michael Mansoor office

and correct the amount on the guarantee bill so that you will be rest assured that we are capable of completing this transaction for

you, lastly sir, regarding your question about sending the money into your local bank, meaning that we will load the

ATM card and also a debit card that will be link in both cards and send it to you which you can get money from both cards locally, and

the checkbook you can as well as went to any local bank and make a withdrawal it will be accepted by any bank and finally you can

maintain the personal account in Cayman Island which will stand as your personal offshore account services.

so as soon as you make the official payment of the fee $5050, within the duration of 24 hours we will fly down to your city with two

other delegate to deliver the cards and the checkbook and we will then present the job completion documents to you to sign and we will

present your own copies so that you will be able to defend yourself whenever the authority ask you to provide the proof of fund.so

please expect the corrected copy of the letter of guarantee from me tomorrow morning because i will try and reach with Mr. Mansoor

Before the end of today to correct the copy for $36 million under your name only and then latest 8 o'clock your time in your country i

will

send corrected new copy to you with the banking details for you to be able to pay the $5050 to Bank of America Usa.


I am doing my  best to make sure we get this transaction completed for you, reason is because Mr. Michael Mansoor is directly involved

on this transaction right now, he is the person that decided that we make sure between now and next week, we must make sure we

complete this transaction for you, i am pleading for you to make sure you pay the $50 dollars for the bank charges and $5,000 dollars

as your account opening balance just to use the $5,000 to Upgrade your account normally so that your account will be available and

ready to receive the big amount of your money in CIBC escrow account now directly to your new open personal account with the bank

which must under the banking law(175)/998/2010 of the Cayman Island, this is the least amount of opening balance of $5,000 must be in

your account before the bank will allow the deposit to your new account to be officially  initiated.


This is the bank policy and you must understand that to open the personal current account with (CIBC) will only cost $50 which is the

rules when it comes to special arrangement because the director wanted the arrangements with me, but before the big amount of your

fund will be lodge into your account with (CIBC) you as the beneficiary must pay $5,000 into your same new account that is what makes

the money you are sending to come up to $5,050 dollars, so is not like your sending the $5,000 for the bank charges, the bank is only

getting their charges which is $50 dollars only, so your $5,000 will remain your account balance and it will be brought forward in the

next online statement from your new personal current account for your perusal.


Let me know if you really understand everything i am explaining and also let me know when you will be sending the fee for the opening

charges and the opening upgrading charges which will be on your name and will be lodge into your new account, so please understand

that the bank only charges $50 dollars but the $5,000 is mandatory because the money still belongs to you, in case you don't

understand

me very well, please feel free to contact me on: + 1 212 845 9773  and + 1 304 409 4713 for more clarifications

Sincerely,

Mrs. Susan Moorehead

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