Fraud Protection - 419 Scams (Nigerian Scam Letters)

Below is what is known as a 419 Scam, also called a Nigerian Letter, Advance Fee Fraud, or Nigerian Scam among other names.  It is a scam letter designed to trick you into sending a sum of cash with the hope of receiving a larger sum back. It is fraud, and should be watched out for.  

You will notice in the 419 Scam below that this person claims to be from an investment firm, even puts the address, yet he is trying to scam this firm out of this dead person’s investment.  You should also notice the punctuation and spelling errors.   In this particular scam letter, the person is asking me to commit ID fraud in order to receive a large sum of cash, which he claims he will give me a percentage of with no risks.  Yet it’s ID Fraud!!  Also notice how he tries to back up his story with a BBC News article; but how do I know he just didn’t take the information off the article in the first place? 

Most 419 scams come in this form, though we have seen some acting like investors wanting to invest in our business or Country.  We’ve even seen them as a lone widow who can’t get her husband’s inheritance without your help.

Anyway, learn to recognize 419 Scams and stay away from them.

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Inheritance Investment Group,LLC
***Address hidden by BakoWeb for security***
Virgin Island Uk.

Claim Profile 25900.

REQUST FOR YOUR HELP.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully,Coupled with my deep interest to invest in your country, I decided to contact you and solicit your mutual assistance at all cost.I am Mr. James Anderson Branch security and investment manager of Inheritance Investment Group Business Information Claim This ProfileI nheritance Investment Group is a private company categorized under Real Estate Consultant and located in Southfield.

In 31st October 1999, One Mr.Neal Walker, a consultant/contractor with the Mines and Power made a numbered time Deposit, valued at £6,500 000 00 GBP (Six million, five hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling).we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After some year, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers that Mr.Neal Walker died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an American Oil onsultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.WEBSITE. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm.

His sum of £6,50 0 000 00 GBP is still in my organisation and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one has come forward for the claim. Inheritance Investment Group has issued out a notice that if no one comes for claim within Ten year the account will be confiscated.Consequently, I want to present you to stand as the next of Neal Walker so that the money will be paid to you, you and I can share the money, which you have to promise me that you will never disappoint me as soon as the money get to you.

It behooves on you to suggest the percentage you will be given for your assistance. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.  There is no risk involved as I will secure approvals asi guarantee the successful execution of this transaction and it will take us 5 working days.

Please you must observe utmost confidentiality if this proposal interest you, please reply me immediately and include your private phone number, and fax number for voice contact.Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks Best regards.

Mr. James Anderson.
Security and Investment
***Email hidden by BakoWeb for security***

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