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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. Andrew James" <dr.andrew_james@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: andrew.jamesubs.uk@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 05:47:27 +0000
Subject: From :Mr.Andrew J.Brooke



Compliments of the day, I am contacting you for a mutual beneficial
business with believe you will not betray me at the end. I am
Mr.Andrew James Brooke; Administrative data Manager, 1 Finsbury Avenue
London, EC2M 2PP UBS Investment Bank plc, here in England. During the
recent audition of bank accounts and services of our bank; I
discovered a non-resident bank account which have not been operated
for a long time. After a discrete inquiry, I found out that the owner
of this account was a United States citizen Mr. Christopher George,
a business mongul and investor who died with his family in Comair
Flight 5191 crash on August 27, 2006. Until now, nobody knows about
his bank account with UBS Investment Bank . This account holds
(18,500,000.00 GBP) Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds Sterling only.

I contact you as a foreigner; in order to arrange with you for the
transfer of this money out from the account, before our next audition
of bank accounts because If the bank management find out that this
account has been latent for these long, it will be frozen and the
money will be returned to the bank treasury, as unclaimed public
funds. Therefore I want you to stand as the "Foreign Beneficiary". I
need your full co-operation to make this transaction work out
perfectly because the bank management is ready to approve the
immediate payment to whoever that would be presented as the
beneficiary to this money. A perfect transfer strategy will be put in
place in your name legally, so that nobody will suspect your claims.

With my positions and influence here in the bank; this money will be
re-profiled to your favor and transferred to any overseas bank
account/s you will nominate, but with an assurance from you that this
money will remain safe in your custody pending my arrival to join you
for securing my share. For your involvement in this deal, you will
receive 35% of the total amount. Kindly consider this offer
immediately and send me your information as follows;

1, Your Full Names,
2, your Contact address/country of residence,
3, your direct Mobile phone Number
4, your date of Birth
5, Your Occupation

To my private email account:
andrew.jamesubs.uk@gmail.com to start re-profiling of the fund in your
name as the heir beneficiary. I will count on your sense of secrecy
and confidentiality, in order to avoid risky exposure, considering the
sensitivity and magnitude of this project.

I am anxiously looking forward to your urgent response, so we can start off.

Best Regards,

Mr. Andrew J.Brooke
Administrative data Manager,
UBS Investment Bank Plc.

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