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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: "Barr. Juan Delgado" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <juan_delgado200@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:51:18 -0500
Subject: I look forward to your prompt response.

Dear Sir/Ma,
This shouldnt come as a surprise to you, i got your email from the internet business mailing list for credible business individuals,
I must solicit your confidence in this transaction based on trust; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret,
though I know that a transaction of this magnitude and nature will make any one apprehensive or worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
However, I am working as an investment consultant with the Bankia De Espana at their offshore department,
I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable of keeping the TOP SECRET,
during one of their period of auditing, we discovered dormant accounts withholding balance of approximately
€250,000,000.00 {Two Hundred And Fifty Million Euros), which we can easily transfer to your account and share with you without any problem,
the amount could be any agreed sum out of the total amount as stated above if not all.
Evidently, I am constrained to issue more details about this business pending when your response is received,
if you know that you are capable to handle this large amount or small amount on trust and can keep secret and ready to take 40% of any
amount that he can transfer into your account from the dormant accounts while my own share along my group will be 60%.
Towards this development, I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds,
provided that the account is capable of receiving the incoming funds, hence, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate and legal perfected
arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law down the road, bearing in mind that, said funds at bank are classified as dormant accounts
are free funds for those who have key information on how to benefit from such dormant accounts, otherwise,
funds will be sent to NGOs because nobody is operating the accounts for upward of 10 years and above of which the bank must have concluded investigation
on such accounts to reach conclusion that the account has no heir and nobody knows about its existence.
Furthermore, this transaction is real and risk free because there will be complete clearance documents to prove the legality of the large amount to any
financial institution, and it will come as a foreign direct investment fund (FDI) as it may please you, hence, you need to create a new bank account or send
an existing bank account information, in order that, we will use it to prepare the payment documents and secure the payment approval on your name or with
the name of your company as the legal beneficiary.
Again, the intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law. However, if this business
proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology, if on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with us as my close ally,
kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations.
 
Awaiting your immediate response.
 
Best Regards,
 
Barr. Juan Delgado.
(Investment consultant).
 

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