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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: Frank Davis <real5frankdavis2015@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:47:32 -0700
Subject: FUND BENEFICIARY

Dear Fund Beneficiary,

We are humbly using this medium to inform you that your payment of
Euros16,500,000.00 (Sixteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros Only) we
recovered from a Bank here in Madrid, Spain as unclaimed
Inheritance/Winning Grant fund belonging to you has been approved and ready
to be released to you.

You are hereby strongly advised immediately to contact the Manager of this
Bank through his open email address: and send him your payment release
code#: BOE 1700 which empower him to process and release the Euros16.5
Million Euros to you ASAP.

We have to let you know that your fund is presently with a Bank here in
Spain. You are therefore required to reconfirm to us immediately in your
return message your full details and banking information’s to enable us
process and wire your fund into your Bank
account.

Thanks for adhering to this instructions.


Yours Sincerely,
Frank Davis

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