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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 DONATUS HARRY <mrdonatusharry@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 06:14:14 -0700
Subject: YOUR FUNDS HAVE BEEN APPROVED


This is to humbly informed you that your fund have been approved for
transfer into your bank account,after been appointed some few months ago i
find out that your outstanding due payment was been withheld for long ,now
that the fund have been approved i will advise you to be serious and
claimed your fund once and for all.

And the only fee needed now from you is $4,700 for the transfer of your
$27.9m and to get all legal document signed and pay all international
subsidiaries fees and IMF,immediately all this legal fee is paid the
transfer will reflect in your bank account without any delays.

Take note that the said fee $4,700 must be paid by you first before the
transfer is done,and the fee is to use and pay all international
subsidiaries including the IMF,(NDLEA) National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) if this fee is paid and all
international fee is cleared the transferred will be successful.

As soon as we hear from you we shall give you instructions on how to wire
the $4,700 to bank account to enable the commence of the transferred
fund.





*Bank Contact.Mr Thomas Grant PenleyEmail:sunbank@usadmin.org
<Email%3Asunbank@usadmin.org>Email:Sunbank107@gmail.com
<Email%3ASunbank107@gmail.com> Tel:+14808085679*

And kindly re-confirmed your bank account details to us for the transfer.
We dully await your prompt response.

Mr Donatus Harry

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