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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: Johnny Marcus <jomarcus49@e1.ru>
Reply-To: jomarcus49@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:08:11 +0000
Subject: Contact Me



Sir

I am Johnny Marcus, a junior staff of one of the banks here. I am
giving you this secret information, so you can contact me back
immediately for the necessary procedure to claim this fund.
I wish to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to
the total sum of US$25m Dollars in the Will of the deceased (which you
have the same surname).
I have emailed you earlier without a response. In my first email I
mentioned about the late customer of the bank whose relatives I cannot
get in touch with and so you could submit your information as his
relative to claim this money since you have the same country of origin
and has the same surname identity.
I am contacting you because the bank is searching for relatives of the
deceased and therefore can be presented as the beneficiary to the
inheritance since there is Will by our late client that the money be
given to anybody with the same surname identity in an event of his
death.
I am compelled to do this because I would not want the bank to push
the client's funds (US$25 Million U.S Dollars) into the bank treasury
as unclaimed inheritance.
I request that you kindly forward to me your letter of acceptance,
your full name, your current telephone and fax numbers and a
forwarding address to enable me compute your name into the banks
database as the beneficiary of money in your favor.
I will thereafter give you the official email address of the bank's
head office to contact the bank for verification and how you can
transfer USD25m into your nominated bank.
Once the money is in your account, I beg that you give 20% of the
USD25m for this fruitful information.
I will not participate in processing of the payment, as it is only the
bank manager that will process the payment and remit fund into your
account.
I will give you the contact of the bank manager as soon as I receive
your reply.




Send your contact details to me via email address:

jomarcus49@yahoo.com.hk

Thanks in advance for your cooperation

Yours faithfully,

Johnny Marcus

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