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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: "Daniel Craig" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidcraig@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:54:09 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION: URGENT NEEDED

ATTENTION



Greetings from DANIEL CRAIG, a former swift operator with the BNP PARIBAS dollar control department and a swift transfer assistant at the BNP PARIBAS Belgium branch, Europe .

This is a benefiting proposal for you and I. This is in regard of an outstanding FUND recovered from a close friend ESCROW with a bank in Europe which is dedicated for a profitable investment. The fund was recovered and has been secured since over 90 days according to the international monetary and banking law of 2005 of the BNP Paribas Europe.

The fund amount ($175M) is been monitored in the reserve escrow designated account for security of the fund .

However, the evolution of the tax requirement for the safe keeping of the fund may increase in the coming days after 2 months of financial instructions and advice received over the verification of the fund.

I have prepared with the help of an active remittance manager of the bank , the fund recovery and remittance proceedings as required Greetings by the European central bank and the BNP Paribas, henceforth , the recovery instruction and advise will be authorized by me.

Precisely, I came about your contact information through the result from my cyber findings.

However, the file to the fund has been classified, therefore, a reliable, outstanding and a capable investor should be assign to the recovery and reception of the fund as every plans and arrangement will be under my directives and instructions for the safety and security of the fund.

As mentioned above: (in order to proceed) TO RECOVER AND RECOVERY THE FUND TO YOUR CUSTODY, outlined a profitable future income investment for both parties, i am requesting your confirmation of interest as soon as possible

MY CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS; davidcraig@rediffmail.com



In addition, I request this communication to be a top confidential in order to achieve the aim. Any violation to my instruction will leads to interruption of the funding process and another investor will be allocated to the fund.


I hope you will consider this as a prosperous dealing and contact me soonest.






Best regards

DANIEL CRAIG

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