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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: Charles Studson <charles.studson@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Charles Studson <charlesstudson@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:26:58 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: DEAR FRIEND, CAN I TRUST YOU?


Dear Friend,

My name is Mr.Charles Studson,Internal Audit Executive Director Morgan Stanley International Bank of London UK, Our late client  named Mr. Ghazi Musa Hassan who was with the Iraqi forces and also a private oil business man, makes a fixed deposit amounting to $150,000,000.00 USD ( One Hundred And Fifty Million United States Dollars ) with our bank here in London since 18th March, 2005 and was assassinated 2007 in Car bomb blast in Iraq and since then this fund have been abandon and the bank will confiscate the fund if no body come for the claim.
 
He did not declare any next of kin throughout his working paper/document of his fund and any foreigner can stand and claim the deceased person fund as his bonafide beneficiary next of kin.With this privilege and right,I want you as a Foreigner to stand as the beneficiary of this transfer of funds from my bank to your nominated bank account, after the successful transfer; we will share a ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me.
 
I want to assure you that everything is well planned as we will do so in line with all legal requirements and banking laws. All I need from you is your willingness,trust and confidentiality so that we can work together as team and achieve this mutual benefiting transaction.
 
Should you be interested please send me your,
 
1, Full Names,
2, Private Phone Number,
3, Current Residential address,
4, Occupation and Age,
5, Nationality and Marital Status,
6, ID or International Passport for Identification,
 
Your earliest response to this letter will be highly appreciated and every correspondence will be via email for now for topmost secrecy until our victory is completed and send me your reply to my private email address ( charlesstudson@hotmail.com) for more details.

Kind Regards,

Mr.Charles Studson
Internal Audit Executive Director
Morgan Stanley Bank of London UK,

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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