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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: Jonathan Barry <jonbarry311@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jonbarry01@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:23:58 +0100
Subject: Re: Read carefully and respond asap



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Dear Friend

I am Jonathan Barry, credit accounts officer of Royal Bank of
Scotland,England. I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and
secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per
annum on each of the Investor's Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made
over $9.2M from Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust
who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Investment
Proceeds.

Brief history of funds: I have more than 158 Corporate Investors
attached to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being
managed and administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds has a
value of over US$22Billion net. The US$22B is been used for trading in
Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending with Profit Returns. Every end of
year, each corporate investor is expected to receive interest from his
total Investment Capital Funds. However, I make an excess of 1.2% from
the Investor's Investment Capital Funds annually which have exceeded our
targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds.This extra of 1.2% from
the 21.2% is been retained by me as my personal profits for managing the
Capital Investment. However, I cannot claim these funds without
presenting someone to stand as an Investor otherwise our establishment
will convert the funds into the company's treasury. This is why I have
come to you for the deal to take place.

Procedure: I will open a file in your name as an investor with some
documents to be backdated to qualify you as our Investor so as to claim
the US$9.2M. The file will be presented to our governing board council
for verification and approval and once your file is approved, you will
be contacted to come down for signing of the Investors Funds Release
Order that will facilitate and expedite the transfer of the funds to
your account through our Investment Bank.

This is a fair deal without any risk attached either on your part or on
my part as long as we comply with the laws governing the claiming of
funds in our establishment. I do not want you to come down to sign the
Investor's Funds Release Order because you cannot defend the source of
the funds during the signing as our remittance department may decide to
ask you some salient questions which you may not answer correctly
thereby jeopardizing the transaction.

Therefore you will inform our establishment that you will not be able to
come down for the signing due to some reasons and hereby you appoint an
attorney that will represent you for the signing. I shall use my
position in my bank to ensure that the approval is issued in your favour
without any delay and upon securing the approval the money will be
transferred to any of your nominated bank account. If you are serious as
I am, we will have this transaction concluded within 10 business days
from the date of start.

If you have any question, feel free to contact me & also indicate your
interest and capability of handling this arrangement.

Send to me your full names and address so that the attorney can start
putting together the necessary paperwork that would facilitate the
release of the money to you.

Kind
regards,
Mr.Jonathan Barry

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