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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: "Matthew Wright" <confidentialproposal1@mail.mn>
Reply-To: confidentialproposal@mail.mn
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:49:04 -0400
Subject: Reply Me ASAP.

Hello,

How are you today? I hope all is well and this letter will meet you in
good shape. I am Matthew Wright, an accountant in one the leading banks in
UAE,which I will hold to mention the name or give you more information
about myself for security reasons until I get your positive response to
partner with me in this business deal.

I contacted you because I came across a payment file valued at
US$10.5million dollars which was marked X and the transfer released disk
painted RED, I took time to study it and found out that the fund was an
accrued dividend from a back-log of an Excess Maximum Return Capital
Profit (EMRCP) of an average of 1.2% on each private investment and
corporate portfolio under our administration and control and all fees and
certificates has been cleared, but the fund has not been released and
cannot be released for some obvious technical reasons.

However, I do not intend to work here all the days of my life, I can
release this fund to you if you can give me 50% of the total sum of
US$10.5million dollars and guarantee me of my security and how I can come
over to your country from this Dubai-United Arab Emirate, as soon as I do
release the fund transfer to your bank account successfully. So I must
make sure that you guarantee my security and my future is secured with you
in your country before I will proceed with the transfer of the fund to
your bank account accordingly because I will resign my position from the
bank as soon as I completed the fund transfer to your bank account
successfully as I do not want to work in the bank all my life but to
establish my own business empire outside UAE.

Upon confirmation of the fund transfer in your bank account successfully,
I will clean up the transfer tracer and destroy the transfer file, after
which I will travel out from United Arab Emirate to meet with you in your
country immediately. If you are interested, do get in touch with me
immediately and you should send me your convenient telephone number for
easy communications and also reconfirm your information as required below,
so that we can proceed with the deal immediately without delay.

(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
(3) Company's name, position and address.
(4) A copy of your passport or driver's license

Please if you are not interested in this deal, kindly delete and destroy
this letter

I await your urgent reply to confidentialproposal@mail.mn

Sincerely,
Matthew Wright
E-mail: confidentialproposal@mail.mn



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