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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: Danny Gerald <info@belwell.tk>
Reply-To: danny@pprrpp.us
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:30:37 -0400
Subject: Good business for you

Dear friend,

My name is Mr Danny Gerald, I am the manager of a finance Company. I
have a transaction that will benefit you and me as the branch manager ,
it is my duty to send a report to my head office at the end of each
year business. On the course of the last five years business report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Twenty five
million Great British Pounds(£25,000,000.00)GBP which my head office are
not aware of and will never be aware of it. I have deposited this funds
on what we call fixed call account with no beneficiary.

As the branch manager of this bank I can not be directly connected to
this money, so my contacting you to this transaction is to assist me
receive this funds in your bank account and get 40% of the total funds
as your own share. If you agree to assist me, I will immediately program
your full information in the computer system here in my own branch as an
account owner.

It will be a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand
claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with
my branch so that my head office will immediately order the transfer to
your designated bank account.


If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much. my
personal email address is


danny@pprrpp.us


email me if you think we can work as a partner so that I will give you
all the information about this funds.

Thank you in advance as you cooperate with me and God bless you.
Sincerely
Mr Danny Gerald

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