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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. David I. Mckay. " <atmoceanic56@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dmckay@e-mail.ua
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:51:16 -1200
Subject: VITAL INFORMATION / RESPOND URGENTLY

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
MR. DAVID MCKAY
http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/down2-mckay.html

Dear Sir /Madam,

I am Mr. David I. McKay, The Group head of Personal and commercial banking
and also responsible for RBC's banking businesses in Canada the U.S. and
the Caribbean. As the head of the group i also supervise all Personal and
business financial services, Credit Card payments, as well as RBC's sales
and branch distribution operations in all our contact centers around the
globe.

We are the World Largest Fund Management Company with over 1.2 Trillion
Capital Investment Fund. Nevertheless, as the RBC Financial Services senior
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 Funds. As an expert, I have made
over $15,500,000.00 Million from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking
for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the fund as
Annual Investment Proceeds from RBC Marginal Capital Fund.

All confirm-able documents to back up the claims will be made available to
you prior to your acceptance. 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 50-50%. 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 in this email: (dmckay@e-mail.ua). This is a serious
transaction and I need a trust worthy partner, you could view my
information about me with the link above.


Sincerely,
Mr. David I. Mckay.

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