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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: "Agent Bruno Lawrence" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agentbrunolawrence@1email.eu>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:10:10 +0100
Subject: Re: To Whom It May Concern

Information Technology Partners
In conjunction with United Nations Bill Clearing House,
Situated In West Africa.

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Agent Bruno Lawrence, We have to inform you about the recent information we discovered over your funds claims in Nigeria/Europe/Asia/African Continents. Using electronic devices to keep surveillance over a person can implicate the investigated individual's Fourth Amendment rights. One form of electronic surveillance developed by law enforcement results in attaching a "bug" to a person's telephone line or to a phone booth and recording the person's conversation. Courts have held that this practice constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment because the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's privacy rights for situations in which the person has a legitimate expectation of privacy. Courts have held that when having a telephone conversation, one would not expect an unknown third-party government agent to listen in on the conversation.

A person has a legitimate expectation of privacy if the person honestly and genuinely believes the location under search to be private and if the reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances would believe the location to be private as well. Therefore, law enforcement has more leeway when intercepting communications in a public place than when the
interception occurs in a secluded environment. The courts have given law enforcement the freedom to record conversation during jail visits, provided that the monitoring reasonably relates to prison security AND for this vital reason we wish to seek your kind attention before we could disclose the vital information we discovered so far.

Have you been solicited as Bonafide contractor/Next of Kin/Lucky Winner? How long have you been on pursuit of this transaction? We have all it takes to get you paid as soon as we hear positively from you with your details of claims: i.e Full name/Telephone number/Age/Home address and mode of your payment/Amount involved. We need all these information to expedite action in getting you paid. Reason is to look into our central control analysis for proper confirmation.

Two general categories of electronic communication surveillance exist. Wire communications refer to the transfer of the human voice from one point to another via use of a wire, cable, or similar device. When law enforcement "taps" a wire, they use some mechanical or electrical device that gives them outside access to the vocal transfer, thus disclosing the contents of the conversation. Electronic communications refer to the transfer of information, data, or sounds from one location to another over a device designed for electronic transmissions. This type of communication includes email or information uploaded from a private computer to the internet.

We expect to hear from you on a way forward on urgently.

Yours in Service,
Agent Bruno Lawrence.
Information Technology Partners.

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