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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. EDWARD BRADLEY" <edwardbradley30@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: edwardbradley29@aol.co.uk
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 04:24:14 -0500
Subject: KINDLY PARTNER WITH ME IN THIS MUTUAL PROJECT......




KINDLY PARTNER WITH ME IN THIS MUTUAL PROJECT

From: Mr. Edward Bradley
United Kingdom.
Reply To : info.edwardbradley1@aol.co.uk

Hello,

I have the pleasure of contacting you on this very important matter. I am
an auditor with a leading auditing firm here in UK. We are external
auditors to a well known bank here in the United Kingdom. And we have so
been for over 15
years now.

I seek your cooperation and collaboration, to transfer the sum of
£15,000,000 {Fifteen million Pounds Sterling}, from this UK bank, to any
bank account of your choice, anywhere in the world, for your benefit and
mine. The above sum is accumulated accruals and deductions, arising from
within the bank, in the ordinary course of its normal banking activities,
over a long period of time. And it has continued to increase. I became
privy to this sum in the course of our periodic auditing of the bank’s
books and records. I know exactly what to do and how to do each and
everything that ought to be done, to make the transfer out the fund
possible. Moreover, I have the unflinching co-operation/collaboration of
the three most relevant key officials of the bank, and together, we will
cause the above amount to be paid in your favour,anywhere on earth, with
no problems at all.

Upon the successful transfer of the funds from UK to your chosen/nominated
bank a/c, you and I will share the transferred sum on equal basis of
50%:50% ratios. Even if your bank a/c has zero, or 1p, or $1 credit in it,
it can receive the funds, as long as the account is outside UK. Bank
accounts denominated or operated in any other convertible currency is
acceptable for receiving the funds too.


All necessary arrangements have already been concluded between me and
these three key/relevant officials of the bank in question, where this
fund is currently domiciled, regarding both the procedure and success of
the transaction. My responsibility now is only finding an honest person,
to collaborate with us in this transaction, to enable us transfer the
said funds out of UK. And that is why I am contacting you. It does not
matter whether you have any financial intelligence, or experience, or not.

I pledge that this transaction will be executed under a transparent
arrangement, which will be above board in all respects and protect us from
any breach of law. Suffice it for me to add that water-tight arrangements
have been put in place, for a successful conclusion of this transaction.
Moreover, everything will be done genuinely and legitimately without
cutting corners.


If you are willing to collaborate with me in this transaction, please
respond to this mail, by immediate return e-mail and we will take it from
there.

The total amount available currently is £23,000,000. However, we will
start by first wiring £15,000,000 and upon successful conclusion of this,
to our mutual satisfactions; we will also process and wire the remaining
balance of £8,000,000

Pls note that the transaction is time-bound.


I look forward to reading from you by return mail.

Best regard.

Mr. Edward Bradley

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