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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: "Dean P. Townsend" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dean.townsend@post.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:22:37 -0700
Subject: Good morning, we want to invest in your country, please contact me for more details

Good morning to you,

Maybe you have forgotten me, but this is the second time I am sending this message to you, and I hope it gets to you this time around to enable me to stop any further contacts. i apologize for the necessity to write you and to become maybe bothersome, but i believe in your ability to prosecute a project of great magnitude, this is not connected with any deceptive intention as you may imagine.

I have a very lucrative project that I would want you and I to execute immediately. There is a dormant acccount where i work with an institution here England , this account attached to a client of mine who deposited his funds with us for a very longtime. The name of the client is Mr. Albert Stanley, the former KBR Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who is currently in confinement as a result of his involvement in inducement scandals.

For more details about Mr. Albert Stanley, kindly visit the news link below,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-23/ex-kbr-ceo-albert-stanley-gets-30-month-prison-term-in-nigeria-bribe-case.html

My client Mr. Albert Stanley now want his funds with our institution to be transferred into a very safety place for investment purpose pending on his release, this is to avoid the Big Society Capital, a new financial institution set up by the government to finance charities and community groups taken over the funds. i want you to understand that a dormant account is when an account is declared dormant after a bank or building society has failed in attempts to contact the account owner. The Financial Security Company and Big Society Capital had in the past sent numerous letters to Mr. Albert Stanley address, but the entire letters bounced back without a reply.

However, before all these drama started, Mr. Albert Jack Stanley had already told me to look for someone to invest his funds outside of England, and I am doing exactly what Mr. Albert had instructed me to do by making contact with you to come forward to take full possession of his funds valued Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (7.5MGBP) with our company. This is very simple and direct to follow, because as soon as I get your full consent to participate in this project, I am going to give you his online account username and password to access the availability of the funds through the Financial company website. Therefore, immediately this is verified from you, we are going to sign a Memorandum of understanding to abide us together, and then contact the Financial company to reactivate the account for the transfer to take place. Please note that it cost nothing to reactivate a dormant account, and also the transaction is legal and free from any encumbrances. If interest
ed, you are going to receive 15%

For us to proceed, I would like to know your full name, address, age, and occupation, this is to enable me to prepare the memorandum of understanding.

Please if you have any question, do not hesitate to inform me for further clarification.

I will be waiting to hear from you.

Contact me through my private email dean.townsend@post.com

Regards,
Dean Watford.

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