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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: "George Spencer" <info@spencer.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: spencer.george@xbmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:05:37 +0700
Subject:

Greetings,



I'm contacting you through a highly secured messaging route that cannot be traced in order maintain the maximum needed confidentiality. For these reasons, I want our communication to be basically through email, please. My name is Mr. George Spencer and I ask for your help in getting back the money left behind by a citizen of your country, Late Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta. If this will endanger your position and reputation, I would not have contacted you. This is safe and beneficial to both of us financially. I am presently the operations manager of our bank here in Ohio, United States of America and please do not expose this transaction for any reason. I will give you more information of myself, our bank and the transaction itself once you accept to do this with me.



Late Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta lived and worked in Ohio, United States of America as a real estate businessman and he deposited in our bank the sum of Forty-Six million, eight hundred and twenty two thousand US Dollars (US$46,822,000) as fixed deposit for a period of two years in 2005. This deposit has matured and he has not come for it since then. We have tried to reach him and could not, his telephone number cannot be reached, emails sent to him kept bouncing back as undelivered and we never got any response from the letters posted to his residential address. This issue prompted me to carry out an independent investigation about his whereabouts and I later realized with shock that he was shot dead sometime in March 2006 by criminals who robbed them while on vacation in Mexico. In order to verify the truth of the matter, I went to Mexico and confirmed he was dead, it is a sad story for a kind hearted and generous person like him. This matter was not reported to our bank and nobody in our bank is aware of this except me.



I have personally made inquiries in your embassy here in the United States and no information about was found. I have also checked our records, there is no information of him relating to India and he did not put nominee at the time he made the deposit. All these made it impossible for me to locate any of his relatives. Since this is the issue, I want you to apply as the beneficiary of the deceased to claim the deposit from our bank. It does not matter if you have any kind of relationship with him or not, I will guide you all the way to make this claim. It is not a matter of being greedy or having bad morals, we are not hurting anyone by making this claim and it is not the best to leave the money to eventually end up in the hands of few corrupt government officials while we have the opportunity to live better with it. This transaction is a risk free transaction and as the operations manager of our bank, the final approval of your application will be done by me. Once I approve it, you will have the right to claim the money.



We will share the money into two equal parts (50:50) for each of us when the claim is made. Everything will be done successfully and legally, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the copies of documents relating to the deposit he made that you will file to back up this claim. All I require is your sincerity and honest cooperation to enable us make this claim successfully and we have to do this within shortest time possible because the money will be reverted to the Treasury Department's account if not claimed now. If you are willing to be the next of kin to Late Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta, please confirm your details below.


(1) Full name............

(2) Date of birth...........

(3) Nationality..........

(4) Residential Address...........

(5) Age...........

(6) Occupation...........

(7) Your telephone number to reach you...........

(8) Your Marital status............


(9) Recent two copies passport photograph and scan copy of your national identification card or any of your valid identification.



Thank you.



Yours sincerely,

Mr. George Spencer. (spencer.george@xbmail.com)



NB: You are to reach me on this email: spencer.george@xbmail.com





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