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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: Mr Frank Adams <info@frank.com>
Reply-To: mr.frankadam1@live.co.uk
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:33:45 +0700
Subject: lets work this out


--
Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Frank Adams, the Auditor General, Royal Bank of Scotland United
Kingdom. In the course of my audit, I discovered a floating fund in an account
which opened in 1990 belonging to a dead foreigner who died in
1999. I have done everything possible to track any member of his
family members
did not work, so I got in touch with you to presented as their
families. He died
without an heir or a will.

My intention is to transfer this sum of U.S. dollars $24.5 million in
aforementioned account to a safe account abroad.

For their help in this endeavor, I am willing to part with a good
percentage of
all funds. After going through the deceased records and files, I
discovered that:

(1) No one has operated this account since 1999
(2) died without an heir or SE, so the money has been floating.
(3) No other person knows about this account and there was no known
beneficiary.

After more inquiry it was also discovered that late Mr. Luis. did not declare
any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank
deposit. What bothers me most is according to the laws of my country at the
expiration of 12 years the funds will be revert to the ownership of the United
Kingdom Government if nobody comes for the funds, Against this scenery, I have
all the information needed to claim these funds and I want you to act as the
beneficiary of the deposit, there is no risk involved in this matter,
as we are
going to adopt a legitimate method and the attorney will prepare all the
necessary documents needed from you.

Please reply so I can send detailed information on modalities of my
proposition.
I totally trusted to maintain this proposition absolutely confidential, if
you're interested in working kindly forward below information to my E-mail:
mr.frankadam1@live.co.uk

Full name:________ Occupation:___________ Age:_______ Your
Nationality:________
Phone and fax:_______

Sincerely,
Mr. Frank Adams
E-mail: mr.frankadam1@live.co.uk





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