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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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Fraud email example:

From: "avellu1951@libero.it" <avellu1951@libero.it>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From: Dr.Andrew Vellu.

From: Dr.Andrew Vellu.
Kutxa Bank (bbk) Madrid, Spain .
Tel/Fax Number: +34 91 790 3953
Email: aavellu@consultant.com OR andrevellu@gmail.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Dr.Andrew Vellu, (Accounts) Kutxa Bank Madird, Spain (Auditing and
Accounting Department) and the Private Banking Investment Account officer of
LATE Mr. Jean-Louis Pereau, who is the President/Chief Executive Officer of
Falcon Engineering Services France. Herein referred as my customer.

On the 2nd, of September 1998 at: 11:16 p.m. EDT (0316 GMT ,Swissair Jetliner,
with 229 passengers on board bound from New York JFK to Geneva, Switzerland,
crashed catastrophically off the coast of Nova Scotia vanishes from radar
near Nova Scotia Halifax, my deceased client Mr. Jean-Louis Pereau, and his
wife Mrs. Clelia Pereau with their three children Joelle Pereau, Sylvie Pereau
and Yves Pereau were involved in a horrific flight crash, 215 passengers and
14
crew members unfortunately lost their lives in the disastrous crash of
Swissair Flight 111. May their gentle souls rest in glorious peace men.

Subsequently I encompass numerous enquiries to locate any of my customers
extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these numerous
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you to forward your particulars
for claim; hence I contacted you as the NEXT of KIN to my LATE client. I have
contacted you to assist in repatriating his chattels and capital value
amounted to US$40,000,000.00 (Forty Million United States Dollars), which his
account has been dormant since 1998 and has accumulated interest with Kutxa
Bank.I consequently request your maximum assistance and approvals to
facilitate the clearance of my LATE client's chattels and capital value before
they get confiscated or nthusiastically declared unserviceable by the
authorities and Kutxa Bank , where these huge funds were deposited.

However, the International finance organization has issued me a final notice
to present his family NEXT of KIN for claim or have the consignment
confiscated. Therefore, on receipt of your encouraging response, we shall
discuss the compulsory modalities. I have all ermissible indispensable
instruments for your claim. Note that you will be entitled to 35% of the total
inheritance while 5% will be set aside for any unexpected expenditure and 60%
for me and my colleagues.In conclusion, I will appoint the assistance of a
legal practitioner to prepare the last WILL of testament notarized for claim in
your favour, your assistance is exceedingly obligatory in order to accomplish
this entire transaction and I guarantee that this operation will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of law.

Please View Website of Disaster to confirm true life story of our LATE
customer: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/07/swissair.victims.
list/index.html

Best Regards
Dr.Andrew Vellu (Accounts)

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