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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: "Pauline Willie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <privatetaylor@o2.pl>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 05:54:48 -0700
Subject: From Mrs. Pauline Willie In Switzerland

From Mrs. Pauline Willie
Postfach 8098 Zurich
Switzerland.
+41435082403
 
 
 
Greetings From Mrs. Pauline Willie
 
 
Hello Good Morning!
 
I'm just dropping in to say,"I hope you have a wonderful day!"May your  morning be sunny side up,your afternoon bright too. May the whole day bring  good news to you!?
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is private, and it should be treated in strict confidence. I work with Bank UBS AG Zurich at their offshore department, I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you will keep TOP SECRET.
During our last periodic auditing I discovered some dormant accounts with holding balances of Three Hundred and Twenty million US Dollars, Sometimes a person will open a bank account, deposit money, and then disappear into the tin air. Banks are not always able to find out what has become
of these silent customers, or to know whether they should follow up on requests from people who claim to be heirs to the accounts. The main problem is that the customer resides abroad and, due to bank secrecy, the bank cannot publish notices in the international press to locate the depositories. This has led the majority of Swiss banks to refrain from opening small-deposit accounts for foreign customers; for fear that they will forget that the account exists.
 
It has happened in the past, however, that customers pass away and their heirs can neither prove the death, nor their heir ship. This was a frequent occurrence during the wartime periods, and the banks have now set up a simple, rapid resolution procedure operating to their customers? advantage.
Dormant assets are defined as any assets deposited with a bank (an account, a custody account or a safety-deposit box) for which there has been no contact with the customer in the bank?s files for the last ten years or more.
 
If you believe you have claim to a Swiss bank account for which the holder (e.g. an ancestor) has not been in contact with the bank for over ten years, there is a fairly simple procedure to follow, depending on the date the account was opened. This account has not been operated for the past years, As at this moment I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received. If you are not familiar with Swiss Dormant Accounts and profile, please take a moment of your very busy schedules to read about Swiss dormant accounts:
website; http://www.crt-ii.org/2001_list/publication_list1_A.phtm
If you know that you are capable to handle large or small amount on trust and can keep secret and ready to take 40% of any amount I transfer to your account from the dormant accounts and I will take 60%, send your account information?s by return mail. Tell me more about yourself, while I look forward to receive the above information.
Please you can write me to my most private email address (peeprivately.w@gmail.com). I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable to receive incoming funds. Send your private mobile phone
number where I can reach you now. and let me hear from you. One more thing below is my Real Estate Proposal which we can invest the money.
 
 
                                                    BELOW IS MY PROPOSAL
 
In the recent years there has been an upsurge in the migration of population from all over world and inter-land into urban areas of the United States Of America, this automatically is what brought about the high population which is being experienced now in USA. Estate development is a thriving business  activity that is prevalent in the state right now and that has brought about a lot of opening up in the states.
The increase in the earnings of the middle class and the encouragement of mortgage institutions and commercials banks in acquisition of comfortable andaffordable houses by this set of people brought about the idea of creating and building a high class first of its kind development where you would have first
class infrastructure within the same location where the development is going to be situated.
 
What is being proposed to developed in the propose estate are therefore stated below
1.         A cargo airport
2.         A 12 hole golf course
3.         A 4 star hotel
4.         A shopping mall
5.         An office complex
6.         Privately generated electricity either by water or wind.
7.         Telephone facility and CCTV
8.         Good drainage and road network as well a well nurtured landscape.
 
These are just few infrastructure to be available in the estate
The accommodation intended to be developed are as follows
 
1. Five bedroom house built on a minimum of half an acre.
2. Four bedroom house built on a minimum of a quarter of an acre.
3. Two 3or 4 bedroom semi detached houses built on about 1100 meters of land.
4. Six no’s 3 bedroom flat built on half an acre of land.
 
All the above listed accommodation is what is being proposed on the new estate.This is also to development low and medium Higher housing development as well.
It is this light we humbly seek and invite partner because we have already secured a financiers to join hands together with us to bring this dream into reality.
 
Dr. Mrs. Pauline Willi
peeprivately.w@gmail.com
+41435082403

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