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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: David Mckay <davidmckay05@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:16:03 -0700
Subject: CHECK MY PROFILE.. WE NEED TO TALK

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
DAVID MCKAY

Dear Friend,

I am David McKay, The Personal Financial Services and Business Financial
Service businesses, as well as RBC's Canadian sales and branch
distribution. The World Largest Fund Management Company with over $1.2
Trillion Capital Investment Fund. Nevertheless, as the RBC Financial
Services Officer, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and
secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per
annual on each of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund.

As an expert, I have made over $10,500,000.00 Million from the Investor's
EMRCP. Every end of year, each corporate investor is expected to receive
interest from his/her total Investment Capital Funds. However, I made an
excess of 1.2% from the Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually which
have exceeded our targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds. This
extra of 1.2% from the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal profits
for managing the Capital Investment.

I cannot claim these funds without presenting someone to stand as an
Investor otherwise our establishment will convert the funds into the
company's treasury. This is why I have come to you for the deal to take
place.

Meanwhile, I have worked out the modalities and technicalities whereby the
funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.
Our sharing ratio will be 60-40%. If you are interested, you should send
your direct phone number so we could discuss more on phone as regard the
transaction.

N.B: Do not contact my office number or email, all correspondence must be
on this box. This is a serious transaction and I need a trust worthy
partner, you could view my information about me with the link below

http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/down2-mckay.html

Sincerely,

David Mckay

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