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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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Fraud email example:

From: Bruce Brown <brucebrown39@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM: DR . S. BRUCE BROWN.


FROM:   DR . S. BRUCE   BROWN.
United Kingdom - London Office
10 Upper Bridge St,
Canterbury, Kent CT1 2,
United Kingdom . Phone: +44 87 1234 1964
E-Mail: (sbbrown55@hotmail.com)
E-Mail.: (brucebrown39@yahoo.com)
                                                                                           HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL                                                                                                  
Dear Sir /MADAM
My name is Dr. S .Bruce Brown, I am the operational manager in account
management section incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime
banks here in United
Kingdom - London. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my
bank who perished with his family .Dr. George Brumley an American Nationality,
a businessman, He was a contractor/consultant to KRUGER MINING (SA) INC a South
African Government Owned Mining Company. He was a Geophysicist by profession
and He died in a Kenya plane crash along with his family (wife, children and
grand children). You can confirm from this website below.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/21/Worldandnation/12_Americans_die_in_K.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

There is an account opened in this bank in 2002 by this great late
INDUSTRIALIST who died without a written or oral WILL attatched to the account.
Since his death , I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next
of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds and no
other person knows about this account or anything concerning it,the account has
no other beneficiary and until his death he was the Owner of his company. The
total amount involved is US$ 48,000,000.00 [ Fourty  Eight Million United States Dollars ] We wish
to start the first transfer with $20,000,000.00[Twenty million] and open
successful transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.I have
secretly discussed this matter with the general manager of the bank who I must
involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to any
foreign bank account which you are going to nominate. On this note, I decided
to seek for a reliable foreigner who will act as the foreign beneficiary of the
fund from the deceased by providing his/her bank account where the fund will be
transferred for immediate investment on any viable project as no one has come
up to be the next of kin. The banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than 14 years without claim hence the money will be recalled to the
government treasury as unclaimed after this long period of domancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal search to see if you can
assist by providing your safe bank account for the transfer or find a reliable
person who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or her personal
account.At the conclussion of the transfer 65% of the fund will be for me, I
will give you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity both in Africa and
in your country while the remaining 5% will be set aside to settle expenses
both parties might incure during the transfer process. Upon the receipt of your
reply, I will send to you a detailed information about the transaction.I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this business is 100% risk and trouble
free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you apply to the bank as the
beneficiary of the fund from the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail: (sbbrown55@hotmail.com) (brucebrown39@yahoo.com) Because of security  reasons. You should also include your private
fax and phone numbers for easy and safe communication.


Respectfully  yours,
30-04-2014
DR . S. BRUCE   BROWN.

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