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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: "Marcus Agius" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <marcus.agius10@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:14:08 -0800
Subject: PROPOSAL FROM MARCUS AGIUS ******BARCLAYS BANK PLC******

Barclays


Good day Sir/Madam,

I am Marcus Agius the Chairman to the Barclays Bank in the United Kingdom, here is a link to read more about me http://group.barclays.com/About-us/Management-structure/The-Board/Biography/1225802846288.html

Well it has come to my notification that a certain Mr. James Raid the owner of this account,  

Account Name: James Raid
Account Number: 678992750002677
Routing Number: 68832
Banking Branch:  54 Lombard Street. London. Postcode, EC3P 3AH.

I have been monitoring this account for the past 4 years and also investigated about Mr. James where about only to discover that he was murdered some years before i began my investigation with an Agent called Solomon Ama, who helped me out with every informatics about him that i needed. Well Mr. James Account is still valid with the total sum of (GBP ?850,000:00) Eight Hundred and fifty Thousand Great British Pounds, Where by this money can not be claimed by any one because no trace of relatives so this Fund is set to be issued to be Governments Money since there is no head to claim this Fund,

I am contacting you to seek for your assistance to claim this Fund, and i will process the necessary documents needed for you to claim this Fund as the next of kin to Mr. James, I most assure that there is no risk in this transaction i have contacted the top lawyers to help in all documents that would be needed to back this transaction.

This Fund would be released in your name and it would be shared amongst three individuals You, Agent Solomon and I, You would be entitled to 45% percentage while i and Agent Solomon would share the rest 55% Percentage, i know that this Fund may not change your life but it can change few things in our lives. Every expenses would be shared between us, you would handle 45% of it and while i handle the 55%

I have the total amount cost that would be needed to complete this transaction which would cost us only GBP ?6,700 to complete and secure all document needed for this transaction, \I and my partner here would make available of %55 of the total cost and if you hurry up and act as we would be instructed by the Barrister that would help us in the documentation we would conclude and have this Fund of GBP ?850,000:00 in our hands under a week.

Please get back to me if you are willing to help us in claiming this Fund and please be alerted that there is no risk in this transaction.

I would be expecting your reply to my private email because this transaction is secret so i do not want to be traced with my banking email.   marcus.agius10@gmail.com

Thank you and i await your response to     marcus.agius10@gmail.com
Marcus Agius
Regards
Marcus Agius
Chairman OF Barclays Bank London, E14 5HP

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