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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: "Nelson Brown" <nb@standardchartered.com>
Reply-To: nelsonbrown70@mail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:10:46 -0500
Subject: Patnership




Dear Friend,

I know it will be a surprise for you to receive my email through the
Internet which may not be the best method of sending you this kind of
proposal due to the abuse of the Internet. My name is Nelson Brown, I
work with the Finance Monetary department in Standard Chartered Bank
UK and we are in charge of auditing foreign account holders.


During our last annual inspection of all foreign account in our bank,
my department found a dormant account with an enormous sum of US 9,
500,000.00 (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) which was
deposited by one Mr. Mohamed Al-Mubarak a top Libyan citizen in
Muamar Gaddafi's regime, in regards to why the account has been
dormant my department set up an investigation committee to
investigate the account, and I was made the chairman of the
investigation committee. In my investigation why the account has not
been operative for so long I found out that the account holder Mr.
Mohamed Al-Mubarak died during the war in Libya alongside Gaddafi
which led to the account been dormant.

As I investigate further I found out the late Mr. Mohamed Al-Mubarak
did not indicated any beneficiary or next of kin in his certificate
of deposit with the bank, and according to the law of my country here
in UK when an account is dormant for years the authority (Ministry
of finance) has every tendency to confiscate the account and the
money will go into the government account. In regards to that which I
don't want the government to have control over the funds, I am
contacting you to stand as the next of kin to the deceased. I will
provide all support proof documents to put you in place as the next
of kin to the funds upon your interest and acceptance of my proposal.


I will need us to work together if you are interested, I assure you
of all useful information that will enable us transfer the money out
of the deceased account into your own designated bank account in your
country legally. Please if you are not interested kindly delete this
email because my job is at stake if my bank find out am given
deceased account information out to an outsider is a big problem to
my job, am only doing this for our own good. You can contact me on my
private Email:nelsonbrown@linuxmail.org with your (1) Given name, (2)
Contact Telephone number, (3) Occupation, (4) Contact address, (5)
Date of birth. As this will enable me start the preparation of the
paper work and documentation to place you as the next of kin to our
deceased customer. I will be explaining to you in full details upon
hearing from you.
I await your prompt responds

Best Regards,
Nelson Brown

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