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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: Dr Morrison Hillman <morrisonm70@msn.com>
Reply-To: <dr_mhillman11@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:18:48 +0000
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF US$15 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT



From: Dr. Sir. Morrison Hillman.
UBS Fund Manager
Zurich, Switzerland.
E-Mail: dr_mhillman11@yahoo.co.uk


Attn,

RE: TRANSFER OF US$15 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I am Dr. Sir. Morrison Hillman , Funds Manager of UBS WEALTH MANAGEMENT, Zurich, Switzerland. The World Largest Funds Management Company with over $3.2 Trillion Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless, as UBS Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made over US$15 Million from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the US$15 Million in his/her account as Annual Investment Proceeds from UBS Magellan Capital Funds. The fund will be transferred to your account under the backup cover of repatriation and investment scheme. All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitches.

Our sharing ratio will be 55% for me and 40% for you while 5% will be for expenses processing and transfer expenses.

Should in case you are interested. Please email me back on this mail address: dr_mhillman11@yahoo.co.uk
provide me with your phone number for discussion of this transaction in further details.


Sincerely.
Dr. Sir. Morrison Hillman.

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