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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. Charles Aaron" <ccka100@gmail.com>
Reply-To: chrlsofficmatta@aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:05:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: URGENT FUND TRANSFER......CAN I TRUST YOU?

From: Mr.Charles Aaron.
220 Balham High Road
Central London W17 7BQ
United Kingdom.


Hello Dear,

I have a business proposal which I believe might interest you. I believe that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid to transfer the sum of (£232.M.) Two Hundred and Thirty Two Million British Pounds into a foreign bank account.

I am Mr.Charles Aaron,an Auditor of a bank here in London.
During the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in Year2000 and since 2003 till now nobody has operated on this account.After a lot of investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank account died without a beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not remit this money out it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of the account is a foreigner. He died since 2003 and the bank account has no other beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody knows about this account or anything concerning it. So I want to grab this opportunity, as it is no harm to nobody.


I am here soliciting for your assistance as a foreigner because the money cannot be approved to anybody here. But It can be approved to a foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign bank account because the former owner of the account is a foreigner. The management must approve this payment to you if you have the correct information of this account, which I will give to you,upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this project. As long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.


With my influence and the position of the bank officials, we can transfer this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival at your end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign bank account or an empty account can serve to receive this money.


At the conclusion of this business, you will be give 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for the bank official and I, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the course of this transaction. People might try sending to you similar letter earlier or after, Please ignore all of them because they are just monitoring the business as agents. I am reposing my full confidence in you now . until I hear from you.

May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.Send also your private phone and fax number including the full details of the bank account to be used for the deposit.and email me at ccka12bc@yahoo.co.uk........Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this email if you do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you. Write me back however if you're ready to work with us on this project.




Regards.
Mr.Charles Aaron.



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