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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: "George Brumly," <ms.mariahfab@gmail.com>
Reply-To: georgebrumly@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 09:03:01 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend!

Dear Friend,

My Name is George Brumly, I am the regional bank manager Uni-Bank
Ghana Ltd. here in Accra, Ghana. In my department,I discovered an
abandoned fund worth over the sum of US$12 million dollars(Twelve
Million US Dollars)in file that belongs to our foreign customer,LATE
MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich-Germany who died along with his
entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.

Below is a website which I will appreciate you go through to read the
information. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since then,I have made several inquiries to locate any of his extended
relatives but all effort has proved abortive.The reason why I am
contacting you is based on trust to enable me present you as the
next-of-kin to him so this fund will be released to you for safety and
subsequent disbursement.Nobody has come to our bank for claiming of
the fund.

It will be easy to convince the bank since I am in possession of the
necessary legalized documents that back-up the fund and which will
present you as the rightful next-of-kin to the deceased customer.I
don't want this fund to go into company's treasury as unclaimed bill.

The bank laws and guidelines stipulates that if such fund remains
unclaimed after thirteen years,the bank will confiscate it.The request
for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this transaction is occasioned by
the fact that late ANDREAS was a foreigner and any indigence cannot
stand as next-of-kin to a foreigner.All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this transaction through.I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

Agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of your assistance,5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the transaction,another 5% to help the less privilege
and to assist the charity organizations here in Africa and abroad
while the rest 50% will be for me.

Thereafter,I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.Therefore,to enable the immediate release of this
fund,you must apply to the bank as the relation or business partner of
the deceased indicating your complete information ,complete
name,postal address,occupation, your private telephone and fax number
for easy and effective communication.


Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you a text of the
application you will send to the bank to seek the release of the fund
to you.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as all
required arrangements have been made. You should contact me as soon as
you receive this mail.

Trusting to hear from you immediately for more details.


Regards,
George Brumly,

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