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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: Saavn <noreply-saavn-invitation@saavn.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:43:48 -0700
Subject: Mr. Laggard Christine Brown has invited you to check out Saavn!

Hi,

Your friend, Mr. Laggard Christine Brown (lagardechristine30@yahoo.com), has recently discovered Saavn and
invited you to check out this cool website for yourself. You can use it to listen
and search for Hindi music and make your own playlists of favorite songs.

Please click on this link to get started:
http://www.saavn.com/?invite_sig=0G4ykIR7Ze%2BsLVJg2iSUiJRVY0yMa0CPTe9DDv%2F9nX%2Bz026KLhOJSqHkppSo0qndaB%2BxWjN1AuWh7BfT5U3Lng%3D%3D

And if you like Saavn, please remember to tell your friends too!

Mr. Laggard Christine Brown has also written this message for you:

Attention: I am Mr. Laggard Christine Brown
Contact E-mail: lagardechristine30@yahoo.com

Greetings To You!!!!!

I KNOW THAT THIS MAIL WILL COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE AS WE NEVER MET BEFORE

My name is Mr. Laggard Christine Brown from London United Kingdom, I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of Two Million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds Sterling (£2,950,000.00) to your account at your own choice.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 7 years in our Bank here without anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died for a along after a brief Illness in London Hospital. The Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person being the next of kin to the deceased customer. For more information about the deceased customer you can visit this website link to confirm the truth of the matter because some many internet Scammers going around the world who makes people run away with any good business relationship come to them, so you can visit this site

link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2956897.stm

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a project of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide me with an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account for this transaction immediately you receive this message, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down in future when the funds will transferred into your account.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning this fund, the account has no other beneficiary or next of kin and until his death he was the manager of his company. My investigation through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me as well that he was single during his first visit in UK. As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment plan but I cannot succeed to transfer this money out of my bank without someone like you put a claim.

If you are interested, please fill and forward me the following information as below to start the transfer process of the fund accordingly.

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address:......................................................
{2} Bank Name:.....................................
{3} Bank Address..................................
{4} Account No:....................................
{5} Swift Code or Routing #...................
{6} Account Holder's Name: ...................
{7} Your telephone Number both Home, Office &
Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers:.................................,
{8} Your Occupation:.............................................

I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested.

Regards,
Dr. Laggard Christine Brown.
Contact E-mail: lagardechristine30@yahoo.com
Telephone: +447014235429





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Thanks,
Saavn
http://www.saavn.com

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