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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: mangalani peter <petermangalani5@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:12:19 +0100
Subject: EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM YOU:


19-06-2015.

With utmost respect to you,
I am sorry to encroach into your privacy in this manner, I found you listed
in the Trade Center Chambers of Commerce directory here in United Kingdom.

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 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 loan
worth the amount of the Gold with the gold serve as a collateral.
After inspecting the treasure in my office, with the owner that brought it
Mr. Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian national and a businessman and
politician I advised him to come back within 3 bank working days to enable
us perfect all documentations work as our banking practice demands which
will enable me make official recommendations to the bank for the approval
of his loan request.

I then issued him a certificate of deposit, which both of us endorsed 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 on my approval of his loan request and
all my calls to his indicated private telephone could not go through
either. I can still send to you a copy of the deposit certificate for your
perusal.

Until I saw it on one of our national UK tabloids that Mr. Badri
Patarkatsishvili was found dead at his Surrey mansion on 12 February 2008,
since I heard of his unfortunate demised 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 seems
abandoned now at the bank custody as it already (7 years of the incident).
Therefore whereby I could not provide his next of kin urgently the bank
will not hesitate to confiscate the treasure. 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 now late
Mr. Badri earlier loan request, which was duly approved in his favor.

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. 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
and must reach out to the down trodden people around the globe from the
proceeds.

Please reply if you are willing to: m.mangalani@freemail.hu

Best regards,

Managalani Peter
HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited
4th Floor City Point, 29 King Street, Leeds,
West, Yorkshire, LS1 2HL, United Kingdom.
+ 44 792 4522 614.

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