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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: William Vanderpump <dr.jaygoren@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: William Vanderpump <vanderpumpwilliam@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:09:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From William Vanderpump



>From William Vanderpump UBSSupport Services Equity Research UBS Investment Bank 1 Fins bury Avenue, London EC2M 2PP. UBS Investment Bank, London United Kingdom.



My Dear Friend. 

My name is William Vanderpump Support Services Equity Research at UBS Investment Bank London.I have a legal transaction for you, I got your email information through your country business Chamber of Commerce and industry on foreign business relations here in  london I haven't disclose this deal to anybody. I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to establish with you for the mutual benefit of you and me.  Please for the maintenance of personal integrity and prestige of my profession, I strongly advise you to keep this transaction highly confidential for security reasons and to avoid loopholes for us to achieve maximum success without any further delay in this transaction. 
on the 23 December 2014 14:33.pm, During the auditing of bank accounts in our bank I discovered an unclaimed fund total sum of £15.000,000.00 GBP in an account that belongs to one of our late foreign customer Late (Hock Miller) a Mexican Businessman who unfortunately lost his life and entire family in a plane crash. After going through his personal file in my bank, I discovered that he died without no specific of his relative to claim these funds. I gladly seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the Deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at Fifteen Million Great British Pounds will be released to you as the beneficiary, which will be shared in percentage ratio 55% to me and 45% to you respectively. All I request is your utmost sincere co-operation; trust and maximum confidentiality to achieve this project successfully.
I have carefully mapped out the modalities for execution of this transaction under a legitimate arrangement to protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in England when the fund is being transferred to your bank account. I will have to provide all the relevant document that will be requested from UBS to indicate that you are the rightful beneficiary of this legacy and UBS bank will release the fund to you with any further delay, upon your consideration and acceptance of this offer, please send me the following information as stated below so we can proceed and get this fund transferred to your designated bank account immediately.  
Kindly send the information as follows below; Respond through this email address; vanderpumpwilliam@yahoo.com
(1) Your Full Name    (2) Your Contact Address  (3) Your direct Mobile telephone Number (4) Your Date of Birth (5) Gender   (6) Occupation 

I await your swift response and re-assurance.

Best regards,William Vanderpump UBSSupport Services Equity Research UBS Investment Bank London.

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