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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. George Culmer" <rm.culmer@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: g.culmer@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:45:29 -0500
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE...



Dear Friend,

Firstly, I Am Mr. George Culmer, the Executive Director and Chief Financial
Officer of Lloyds Banking Group United Kingdom. In my department we
discover an
abandoned sum of USD$95,000,000.00 (NINETY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE
DOLLARS) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his
family's in plane crash.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to
the deceased for the safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it. I agree that 45% of this money will be for you, while 55% would be for
me. Then after the money is been transferred into your account, I will visit
your country for an investment under your kind control.I will first transfer
$10,000,000.00 to any valid foreign account you will nominate.

HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED: As the Executive Director and Chief
Financial Officer of our bank,all our client account details and file
are in my
possession and that makes it easy for me to include your name as the
beneficiary
of the fund in all necessary documents involving the money we wish to transfer
out from our bank.

If you are willing to cooperate in this project reply back to me as soon as
possible now through my private email below for more details:

PRIVATE EMAIL: p.private93@yahoo.com

I am waiting for your urgent respond to enable us proceed further for
the transfer.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. George Culmer.

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