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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: "Mr. Stephen King" <pinatm@postino.net>
Reply-To: privatestephenking215@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 04:02:55 +0200
Subject: YOUR CO-OPERATION NEEDED



Greetings,

I am Mr. Stephen. King, Director of foreign investment Section of one of
the world's largest and most diversified private investment company in UK
(Caledonia Investments plc),with over GBP25 billion assets base. As the
director of foreign investments, I handle the company's Investment on
stocks for 8 years now. In 2007 to 2009, I handled the company's Initial
public offer sales (IPO).

During these years,The company had Excess and Maximum Capital Profit on
investments,from the Excess return profit, I secretly extracted 1.2% from
the bonus shares or stocks. As an expert, I made over GBP22.4M worth of
stocks from the previous years Excess and marginal Capital Profit and
hereby looking for a foreigner to trust who will stand as a share holder or
the Investor of this fund with Caledonia Investment,to receive the funds as
Annual Investment Proceeds from the company's Magellan Capital Funds after
which we will disburse the fund for our investment purposes.

All conformable documents to back up the claims will be made available to
you prior to your acceptance.Meanwhile,I have worked out the modalities and
technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing
Houses without any hitches. Our disbursement or sharing ratio will be
60-40. If you are interested,send your direct phone number so we could
discuss more on phone as regard the transaction.
Thanks for your understanding as I would wait to get immediate response
from you.

Sincerely.
Mr. Stephen King

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