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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: "David Brown" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ddrowmdavidd@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:35:40 +1100
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?W1NwYW0tTWFpbF1JIGFtIHdhaXRpbmcgdG8gaGVhciBmcm9tIHlvdSBzb29u?=

Good Day,
This is to remind you that your fund USD$4,500,000.00 has been
approved for payment. We are contacting you to re-confirm your
account coordinates, so that we will NOT make wrong transfer of your fund and
we would not be held liable due to wrong disbursement of your fund.
However we received an email from one MR CHARLES E. MATSON, 2- 9225
Leslie Street, Richmond Hill Ontario, L4B 3H6 , who told us that he
is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident four months
back,the sudden change of account details is suspecious.He has also
submitted he account information to our accounts/audit department
for transfer of the fund to he as your inheritor of the fund stated
herein.
We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in
our Bank records before we can make the transfer into her account and
for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or still alive.
Please, should this notification from has been in the contrary,you
should urgently reply confirmating to my office that you are still
alive,As soon as we confirm from you we shall forward to you the
payment information stated below:This account information below was
presented to us by MR CHARLES E. MATSON where he would want the fund
of USD$4.5M to be transferred into:
NEW BENEFICIARY:BANK
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
1155 Ren?-L?vesque Blvd.
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3B 3Z4
C/A Name: MR CHARLES E. MATSON
SWIFT CODE: CIBCCATT
Let us know as soon as possible if you are the one that gave
authorization to this effect and the order to transfer your fund into
the said account.However, you should urgently re-confirm your full
receiving bank details to ths email address (browndavid3461@yahoo.pt )if on the contrary,we are Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Yours Faithfully
David Brown.

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