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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: "AGENT KELLY BROWN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kellybrown.ng@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:12:06 -0400
Subject: URGENT REPLY

Hello kellybrown.ng@gmail.com

I am Kelly brown(FBI AGENT),i have been assigned to Africa to
handle issues involving foreign Beneficiaries being ripped each time
they try to make a claim on their inheritance.Please be informed that
during my investigation i got to find out that there is a huge sum of
$15million that has been assigned to you and this scammers are busy
swindling you without any hope of you receiving your fund.

The Tunisian Cyber Army claimed to have breached CBN and AT&T websites
by exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerabilities. The major reason why
different scam messages are sent to you was because these hackers
hacked the CBN Database found out truly you have A Due fund of
$15million ( FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) unclaimed, they
claimed to have compromised 19,800 user details from the CBN
website(CBN.com). They collected your email and use this opportunity
to send different emails with different Co-operate organization names
including CBN, FedEx and other professional names making you to
believe you have some money with them.

Firstly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some
non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to
stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately

NOTE: The information i just gather from the Central Bank Suspense
account is that the only amount meant to pay for this transfer process
is the sum of $250 which covers for both Logistics an Securing a DEED
OF AGREEMENT which will act as a Binding force between the Transfer
Bank an the Beneficiary so that any form of Transfer charge can be
deducted from Beneficiaries total fund before transfer is done.

The Bank also specified that the Transfer process can be done in the
following way pending the option of choice preferred by the
Beneficiary in question.

1)Through Bank to Bank wire transfer :The Bank account details of the
Beneficiary will be needed so that the wire transfer can be done
directly to the said account.

2)Through ATM card to be shipped to you through the courier service:In
this option an ATM master card will be issued out in favor of the
Beneficiary,it has a maximum withdraw of $100,000 per day.

3)As a Bank Draft/Cheque to be delivered to you also through the
courier.:In this case an international Bank draft will be issued out
to the Beneficiary and it is cash-able any where in the world by the
Beneficiary since the draft will be drawn using details of the
Beneficiary.
.

Do re-confirm to me the information below because an Application will
be submitted to the Bank in your favor and the details below will be
needed to enhance the said Application before the Bank.

FULL NAME:.....ADDRESS:.......PHONE
NUMBER........COUNTRY:......OCCUPATION:....SEX:....AGE:

In view of the above,i shall expect a response from you so that you
can join the list of beneficiary who are presently in joy after
receiving their compensated amount as scam victims.

Best Regard,
Kelly BROWN

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