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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: "dr.mcke" <dr.mcke@onet.eu>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:21:22 +0200
Subject: From Dr.Mckenzie Rory


>From Dr.Mckenzie Rory Union Bank of Switzerland
Support Services Equity Research UBS Investment Bank 
1 Fins bury Avenue, London EC2M 2PP. 
UBS Investment Bank, London United 
Kingdom.
 
 
Dear Friend,
 
My name is Dr.Mckenzie Rory i work with UBS bank London,in my department been the manager greater London regional office.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 discovered a total sum of £15 million pound sterling in this account that belong to our foreign late customer (Late Mr.Moises Saba) a Mexican Businessman,whose lost his life in a helicopter crash. This fund has been in this bank, for the past 15 years now, without anybody to come for the claim.I seek your consent to present you,to my bank as his cousin.i have worked with this bank for more than 35 year now, i have every secret about this account and the funds.
 
You can see more information about Saba Masri Mr.Moises unfortunate end 
accident on the website-link below. 
 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3832556,00.html
 
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 provide me with the following information below,so these fund can be transfer into your bank account and my share in this transaction 55% to me and 45% for you. And I would like to invest part of my share in your country. 
 
Kindly send the information as follows below; 
 
(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,
 
Dr.Mckenzie Rory
 

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