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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. Jan Groenning" <jangroenning@superposta.com>
Reply-To: mr_jangroenning@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:53:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Solution To Your Pending Payment

My name is Mr. Jan Groenning, an external auditor with Euroclear Group. I work as part of a larger team of auditors that cover the entire United Kingdom. On routine audit check in July this year, I discovered a roll-over deposit account bearing your name that has been dormant for Three years. The total deposit with accrued interest until it became dormant was 31,050,017.00 Million United States Dollars(Thirty One Million,Fifty Thousand and Seventeen cent). From your account statement, your funds was shifted from the purposed paying Bank to Euroclear because of their inability to have paid at the agreed time.On further investigation to unravel the reason for the dormancy of the account, I discovered that the account lack proper documentation for operation.

Now banking regulation/legislation here demand that I notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory period, whence dormant accounts of this type are called in by the financial regulatory bodies. In effect, this fund automatically reverts to the state. This fact underscores my reason for writing and proposing to you.

I am of the settled conviction that using my insider leverage and working with you on the outside as the sole beneficiary to the dormant account, we can secure your funds in the account for us instead of letting it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the British government.

My assurance to you is based on my having assisted a customer do same thing when we audited Citibank February this year. I want to remind you of the saying that "it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, rather it is because we do not dare that things are difficult". Secondly "daring ideas are like chess men moved forward, they may be beaten or initiate the strategy for winning a game. I am giving you the 100% assurance that I can assist you receive your funds on the condition that we will share the money 50/50 when you receive it. If you accept my condition, I will inform you the method I used in assisting a customer receive her funds in a dormant account with Citibank February this year. Meanwhile I have filed funds release application on your behalf so that your funds will not be included in the list we shall be submitting as unclaimed funds at the end of the audit exercise.I await your swift response.

Regards,
Mr. Jan Groenning

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