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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: engr jose <engrjose04@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 06:45:15 +0100
Subject: COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON:


20-12-2014

With utmost respect to you and compliment of the season:

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 are capable of investing
this fund based on your experience, which I explained below after going
through your profile.
A stalk of 100% pure raw 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 exchange with the gold as a
collateral.
After inspecting the treasure in my office, with the owner, Mr. Badri
Patarkatsishvili a Georgian national and businessman, after inspection 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 on UK tabloids Mr. Badri Patarkatsishvili was found dead
at his Surrey mansion 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
any 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 or the
bank will confiscate the treasure by invoking the UK abandoned deposit law,
since the treasure seemed abandoned now, whereby I could not provide his
next of kin as the year is ending. The next of kin is entitle to 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 Mr. Badri
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 you
to the bank and make immediate concrete arrangement to release the treasure
to you, the bank is putting so much pressure on me now and another good
thing is that the bank will still go ahead to convert the treasure deposit
to cash and then remit the cash to you based on our initial plan with the
late depositor which you and l will in turn secretly invest the money at
your good advice or share it to ourselves and donate some percentage to a
choice charity home.

Kindly note that we stand to benefit from this without any hitch, since the
bank will never 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 you because I don’t want to work with someone who can be trace
back to me.

Now, I know you have your name to protect just like myself and you know how
the system works here in UK but I have thought it wise of contacting you
knowing you are capable of inaudibly investing this fund because of your
professional experience.

Please you can call or 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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