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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: "Mr. Alex LOGAN, BNP PARIBAS UK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mralex_logan@aol.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:09:28 -0700
Subject: RE: YOUR DEPENDING FINANCIAL TRANSACTION !!

Hello.

You maybe surprise to receive this letter from me considering the nature of my communication. I am Mr. Alex LOGAN and I work with a leading financial institution in United Kingdom, i have decided to write you following a discovery I made during my department general auditing in our bank. It is my pleasure to inform you continued existence of unclaimed fund coded as dormant in our reserve account with your name and data's as the beneficiary.

Since i made this discovering, I have together with my colleagues continued to explore possibilities of having this fund claimed. However during this exploration, we discovered that without your active involvement as the beneficiary it will be impossible to claim this money. Therefore, i waited for a perfect opportunity before informing you about this development.

As I am writing now, arrangements have been completed with my colleagues who are high ranked officials of this bank to have the funds paid to you installment. We shall take care of all arrangements of the plan in our bank, hence you will agree to our sharing proposal. There are 5 officials of this bank involved, and therefore 70percent of any payment you receive will come to us. Right now, we have completed arrangements to pay you US$32,200,000.00 in cash by bring it to your country through our bank's offshore dealings. Again, we shall handle every arrangement from here until the money arrives in your country. I will explain in details this channel upon your response.

If you accept to these plans, do write back immediately. I would appreciate you reconfirm the below information’s for easy communication during the business, full name, direct telephone, complete postal address.

Everything is set to move the above amount. Please consider this message very serious and urgent.

Sincerely,

Mr. Alex LOGAN

BRANCH MANAGER
BNP PARIBAS UK
3 Harewood Avenue
London NW1 6JL
T +44 79 3714 9995

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