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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: "brian capon" <briancapon2006@msn.com>
Reply-To: briancapon2006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:40:45 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT

FROM THE DESK OF:MR.BRIAN CAPON
NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK,
LONDON,
UNITED KINDOM.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.BRIAN CAPON the system and control director at
the NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK.I am writing this letter to solicit
for support and assistance from you to carry out this business
opportunity in my bank.

Lying in an inactive account is the sum of eleven milion
pounds sterling belonging to a foreign customer (Michael Gambone) who
was a gas consultant here in UK,who happens to be deceased during a
business trip. He died with his wife(Deborah Gambone) on board the Swissair
Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september
2nd 1998.

The news of this crash was on the news which we have
notified his relatives to no avail.

See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

Ever since he died the bank has been expecting his next of kin to come and
claim these fund.

To this effect, we can not release the money unless someone applies for it
as next of kin, as indicated in our banking guideline.

Unfortunately he has no family member in UK or Over-sea who are aware
of the existence of the money(as he was a gas consultant.

At this juncture i have decided to do business with you.

To this effect I solicit your assistance in applying as the next of
kin to the bank then the money will be released to you,as I do not want this
money to go into the bank treasury as an unclaimed bill,because the banking
law and guideline stipulates that if such
money(s) remains unclaimed for a period of up to eight years(8yrs),the
money will be transferred into the banks treasury as an unclaimed bill.

My request for a foreigner as next of kin is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and a British cannot stand as
next of kin.

40% of the money will be your share as a foreign partner and your assistance
to actualise this business,5% for any expenses
incured.

Thereafter i will visit your country with your help once the money
hits your account for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated.

To effect the immediate transfer of the fund to you as agreed,you must apply
first to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased,then we will follow up
all formalities for the transaction.

Upon receipt of your reply, i will send to you, the text of the
application you are to send to the bank,and further clearify you
in other issues as to affect this business.

Awaiting to hear from you urgently.

Best Regards

Mr.BRIAN CAPON.


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