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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: "Mrs Vilma Castillo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <vilma.castillo0@yandex.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:38:01 +0400
Subject: Dear Friend

 
 
 
 
Compliments;
Dear Sir/Ma,
 
I am Mrs Vilma Castillo, credit accounts officer of Land Bank, Central Luzon - PAMPANGA Branch, philippines. I handle all our Investors portfolio and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Capital Funds. As an expert, I have
made over $9.2M from Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Investment Proceeds.
 
Brief history of funds: I have more than 158 Corporate Investors attached to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being managed and administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds has a value of over US$22Billion net. The US$22B is been used for trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending with Profit Returns. However, I make an excess of 1.2 percent from the Investor's investment capital funds annually which have exceeded our targeted 20 percent 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. However, 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.
 
 
Get back to me for more details if you know you can handle this.
 
Kind regards,
 
Mrs Vilma Castillo
 
 

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