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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: williams grant <williams.grant290@gmail.com>
Reply-To: williamsgrantt290@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:40:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PARTNERSHIP REQUEST



 





Dear
Friend,

Do you know that for the past 10 years now more than €95Million
has being diverted and stolen by some greedy and corrupt politicians by the help
of their influential and powerful colleagues who has help them to launder and
transfer this fund through our bank to the Overseas? This fund was derived from
the sales of Gold and Cotton.

As a banker working in the Foreign
Remittance Department, I want you to know that I have acted as the Account
Officer to most of these politicians, so I have being involved and participated
in the many financial transfer transaction done by this corrupt politicians
several times to the Overseas.

When I now discover that this politicians
were using me to achieve their aims by transferring this huge amount of fund
through our bank to the Overseas, I decided to use my opportunity as a top bank
official to divert the sum of €4.8 Million to an Escrow Account belonging to no
one in the bank and then clean up the records and files concerning this €4.8
Million from our Bank Data-base processing Financial Deposit so that there will
be no trace of this fund.

Now the reason why I have contacted you is
this; the bank management is now anxious to know who owns this account that has
this fund (€4.8 Million) because the bank has benefited and made lot of profits
from this fund for almost six years now. I need a trustworthy and honest foreign
partner that I will present to the bank as the owner of the account having this
said fund (€4.8Million).

This is how we are going to do it, You will have
to send your personal information’s to me which I will have to program as the
owner of the fund (€4.8Million) in our Bank Data-base Processing Financial
Deposit, then later I will send you an application letter which you will send to
apologize to the management of the bank and thereafter instruct the bank to
transfer the fund to you through the Automated Transferred Money (ATM) Visa Card
Account bearing your name. So, if you are interested kindly send the following
information to me immediately:

1). YOUR FULL
NAME:....................
2). YOUR RESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS:.................
3). YOUR AGE;........................
...........
4). YOUR OCCUPATION:...............
5). YOUR
NATIONALITY:....
6)YOUR DIRECT MOBILE
LINE:...................



Yours sincerely
WILLIAMS
GRANT
 
 

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