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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: allen brown <allbrownen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:16:32 +0100
Subject: OFFER

Greetings,


I am Julius Meyer, credit accounts officer of Royal Bank of
Scotland,Englands.I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and
secretly extract 1.2%
Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the
Investor's Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over $9.2M from
Investor's EMRCP and hereby
looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the
funds as Investment Proceeds.

Brief history of funds: I have more than 158 Corporate
Investors attached to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being
managed and administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds has avalue of
over
US$22Billion net. The US$22B is been used for tradingin Stock Market, Crude
Oil and Lending with Profit Returns. Every endof year, each corporate
investor is
expected to receive interest from his total Investment Capital Funds.
However, I make an excess of 1.2% from the Investor's Investment Capital
Funds annually which
have exceeded our targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds.

This extra of 1.2% from the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal
profits for managing the
Capital Investment. However, I cannot claim these funds without presenting
someone to stand as an Investor otherwise our establishment will convert
the funds into
the company's treasury. This is why I have come to you for the deal to take
place.Procedure: I will open a file in your name as an investor with some
documents to be
backdated to qualify you as our Investor so as toclaim the US$9.2M. The
file will be presented to our governing board council for verification and
approval and once
your file is approved,you will be contacted to come down for signing of the
Investors Funds Release Order that will facilitate and expedite the
transfer of the funds
to your account through our Investment Bank.

This is a fair deal without any risk attached either on your part or on my
part as long as we comply with the laws
governing the claiming of funds inour establishment. I do not want you to
come down to sign the Investor's Funds Release Order because you cannot
defend the source of
the funds during the signing as our remittance department may decide to ask
you some salient questions which you may not answer correctly thereby
jeopardizing the
transaction.

Therefore you will inform our establishment that you will not be able to
come down for the signing due to some reasons and hereby you appoint an
attorney
that will represent you for the signing. I shall use my position in my bank
to ensure that the approval is issued in your favour without any delay and
upon securing the
approval the money will be transferred to any of your nominated bank
account.

If you are serious as I am, we will have this transaction concluded within
10 business days from the date of start. If you have any question, feel
free to contact me and
also indicate your interest and capability of handling this arrangement.

Send to me your full names and address so that the attorney can start
putting together the necessary paperwork that would facilitate the release
of the money to you.
Reach me directly through my email below: julius_meyer2010@yahoo.com

Kind regards,
Julius Meyer.
Email: julius_meyer2010@yahoo.com

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