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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. Raymond brown" <raybrown016@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:53:56 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT CODE (A.T.M.811)

Prime Minister's office
10 downing street,
London, sw1a 2aa.
Visa card payment unit
London UK.

PAYMENT CODE (A.T.M.811)

This is to inform you that we have been monitoring your payment for a very
long time and as at today, we discovered that you were mislead by some
Officers who took advantage of you as a result of demanding one payment
after another from you instead of releasing your fund to you. at the moment,
we have recalled all payment files to this office since last week and it is
now on my desk as i am writing this message to you .you are warned to stop
further communication with anybody in respect of your payment with effect
from today if you wish to receive your fund successfully without further
delay.

Your payment file is right here with us and we are set to complete your
payment immediately as instructed by Prime Minister David Cameron and the
U.K treasury, who has approved the sum of $1 billion pound sterling only,to
be shared among the affected scam victims around the globe which your
contact email address was among the short listed beneficiaries.


Note that we have been mandated to issue out ($2,000.000.00) as a part
payment to you for this fiscal year 2012. if you will like to receive your
fund this week let us know immediately by contacting me upon the receipt of
this mail with the following information names, address, sex, age,
occupation, your phone/fax numbers including attach copy of your
identification .we advise you to stop further communication with anybody
with effect from today no matter what the person might claim to be so that
you dont lost your hard earned money to impostors.

We hereby issue you our code of conduct, which are (A.T.M.811) so you haveto
indicate this code when contacting us by using it as your subject because of
impostors.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Raymond brown
Foreign debt settlement committee
London U.K.




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