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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: Jose engr <joseengr7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:38:39 +0100
Subject: With utmost respect to you:


02-11-2014

Dear friend,

With utmost respect to you,

Please accept and give this mail fair consideration and realize I never
contacted you in error.
I contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of
handling this business transaction, which I explained below after going
through your profile.

A stalk of 100% pure Gold in (24 karats diamond quality) valued GBP
26,900,000 (Twenty six Million nine hundred thousand British Pounds), was
brought to my office to enable me officially evaluate it and approve a cash
exchange worth the amount of the Gold for cash conversation with the gold
as a collateral.

After inspecting the treasure in my office, with the owner, Mr. Badri
Patarkatsishvili a Georgian republic businessman, I advised him to come
back within 3 bank working days to enable us perfect all documentations
work as our banking protocol demanded which will enable me make official
recommendations to the bank for the approval of his request.

But I issued him a certificate of deposit and retained a copy before he
left my office and then he promised to come back as we scheduled before I
sadly heard of his unfortunate mysterious death months after his death
reason he couldn’t honor the appointment for his official endorsement of
documents as the bank granted approval of his request. I can still send to
you a copy of the deposit certificate for your perusal.

It was announced Mr. Badri Patarkatsishvili died on 12 February 2008, since
I heard of his unfortunate incident I have used every conventional and
unconventional means within my disposal trying to locate any of his
relations to no avail as he never fill anyone name in particular as his
next of kin. And my bank is now insisting and persuading me to locate his
associate who can take back the treasure as the bank is threatening to
confiscate the treasure by invoking the UK abandoned deposit law, since the
treasure seemed abandoned since his death, whereby I could not provide his
next of kin, who will retrieve the deposit either as it was deposited or by
cash conversion which will just be transferred since the bank doesn't have
problem with his earlier request.

It is this reason I decided to seek your assistance to have you stand in as
late Mr. Badri Patarkatsishvili contact person so that I will recommend to
the bank and make immediate concrete arrangement to release the treasure to
you, since the bank is putting so much pressure on me now and another good
thing is that the bank can still go ahead to convert the treasure deposit
and then remit the cash to you based on my recommendation which you and l
may in turn secretly invest the money at your good advice or share it to
ourselves and donate some part to a choice charity home.

Kindly note that we stand to benefit from this without any hitch, since the
bank will not be aware of this secret and I will control the situation if
you are interested because allowing the bank to confiscate the deposit as
an abandoned deposit will not be of any benefit to me hence my decision of
contacting you and we will sign MOU immediately we reach agreement to work
together. And bear in mind there is no risk attached whatsoever and I
contacted because I don’t want to work with someone who can be trace back
at me.

Please send your confidential reply if you are willing to:
m.mangalani@yahoo.com

Best regards,

Mr.Peter Mangalani Malungani
Director of Debt/Asset management,
Investec Private Bank Ltd London UK.
+ 44 792 4522 614.

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