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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: Abbas Gled Sophia <gledsophiaabbas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:35:25 -0800
Subject: Dear Sir,


Dear Sir,

My name is Mr. Dennis Morgan, Head of Investments & Deputy Treasurer,
United Bank Limited, 2 Brook Street, London W1S 1BQ, United Kingdom. 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 £48.6Million(GBP) over
time from Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will
stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Tenure Investment Proceeds.



Brief history of funds: I have more than 208 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
£19.2Billion net. The £19.2B 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. 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. I will work with an
attorney to perfect all arrangements in your favour and the funds will be
paid to you for our own use.



Please if you are interested to continue with this project, I demand you to
get back to me so as we can proceed towards the positivity of this fair
deal.

Sincerely yours,

Dennis Morgan.

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