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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: "Mr. Tushar Morzaria." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tusharmorbbp@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:11:34 -0500
Subject: Your fund transfer was reported to have been done.

Beneficiary : (Fund Owner)


Dear Sir,

In reference to your inheritance fund which has been forwarded to us
here in England (BARCLAYS BANK) via West African Foreign Remittance
commission, Your fund transfer was reported to have been done through
unexciting banking regulation, based on open tender policy, especially
when it comes to large funds.

In a nut shell, your fund can never again be transferred to you due to
irregularity detected.
In addition to this, after due investigation to this, the bank has in
record, six different bodies coming on behalf of this particular fund
However, since the fund has been marked as series, It is better to let
you understand that unless the bull is been held by the horn, nothing
again can be done.

The only option for now is to divert the attention of the fund to a
created account outside England through telegraphic transfer and have
all the visible documents related to this destroyed and all avenues
closed. This is likely going to attract the attention of the Director
who is surely going to demand for some percentage from the fund.

Based on past experience, the account will be created somewhere
between Arab nation so as to avoid detecting the route. This fund will
then be packaged on physical cash to any available country where you
will receive it on cash as the only means presently safer.
If is acceptable to you, we can discuss on the possibility.


Sincerely,

Mr. Tushar Morzaria.

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