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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: baron james <baronjames121@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:54:19 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY

Hello Dear Friend.

I am mr james baron , the Chief auditor of Unity trust bank here in
united kingdom I got your contact from a business directory. There is an
account opened in our bank in 1998 , and since 2011 , nobody operated on
this account again. After going through
some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will forfeit for nothing.The owner of this account is
Mr. Smith B. Andreas, an engineer, and a miner at Kruger Gold Co. a
geologist by p profession and he died since 2010 . No other person knows
about this account or anything, concerning it. The account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his Company does
not know anything about this account and the

amount Involved is (25 m ) twenty five million British pounds . I want
to transfer this money into a safe foreigner account abroad, but I don't
know any Foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner as this money
cannot be proved to Local banks, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in british pounds and the former owner of the
account Mr. Smith B. Audreas is a foreigner too. I know that this message
will come to you as a surprise as we don't know our selves before, never
mind be sure that this it is a real and genuine business .You are the only
person that i have contacted in this business believing God that you will
not get over me, please reply urgently so that i will inform you the next
step to take send also your private telephone


. It is important to inform you also that my retirement from service will
take effect in April 2018 so I need to pay inn this money into a
reliable foreign account before the end of march 2018 also I want us to
meet face to face or sign a binding agreements you can receive this money
into a foreign account or any account or any account of your choice where
the fund will be safe and I will fly to your country for withdrawal and
sharing. I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner
with a foreign account and a foreign beneficiary. I need your full
co-operation to make this work . The management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which
I will give to you later immediately, if you are able, and with capability
to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my
instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because I don't want to
make Mistakes. I need strong rangeland trust with my position now in the
office; I can transfer this money TO any foreign


account, reliable account that can provide me with assurance that this
money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for
sharing. I will destroy all documents that are involved immediately we
receive this money leaving no trace to any place. At conclusion of this
business you will be given 40% of the total amount 55% percent will be for
me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might incur during the
process of transfer.

Best Regards
James baron


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