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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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From: "Mr.Andy Meehan" <andy.meehan@yb-service.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Correspondent - 2




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Location: United Kingdom. 
Date: Thursday 01/10/2009
Time: 12:00:00 GMT
Yorkshire Bank®: International Transfer Unit. 
 
 
                                    ESCROW ACCOUNT ACTIVATION.

 
                                                                                             REF: UK81262GB

 
 
Dear  Robert Wee,
 


This is to confirm the receipt of your e-mail and we would like to also use to medium to assure you that we are ready to give you the very best of 24 hours customer service.
 
Be informed that your transaction has also been registered, confirmed and approved by our Securities / Registrars to be completed by our Money Transfer Unit.
 
Furthermore, we wish to inform you that your winning funds €1,000,000.00 Euro was deposited with our esteemed bank by the Euro Mega Millions - Promotion Company - UK on an Escrow Suspense Account (# 948-888-2500) and it is from this said account your winnings will be re-transferred to your personal bank account by you, take note of this.

In line with the above, you are to activate your Escrow Suspense Account with a certain amount for us to be able to proceed further on your transaction, so that we can activate the account and immediately provide you with the ACCOUNT LOG IN DETAILS / INFORMATION'S which will enable you logon to the account and transfer your funds from the account (# 948-888-2500) on line from our Bank to your personal bank account anywhere in the world Just a Click!.

 
More so, you are to confirm with us if you are ready to proceed with the ESCROW SUSPENSE ACCOUNT ACTIVATION FEE which is required for the account to be activated in other for us to proceed and complete your transaction. 
 
In line with this, that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any fee from the money before it has been remitted to you because the funds has to be remitted into your provided Bank Account in full this is because this was part of the term and conditions in the contract sign by the Yorkshire Bank and the Euro Mega Millions - Promotion Company - UK when the Yorkshire Bank became their official Payout Bank.
 
We wish to also inform you that after you must have paid for your activation fee, the escrow suspense account log in details /  information's will be sent you by fax for security reasons and will as well be sent to you by e-mail upon your request.
 
I will get back to you with more details and information's as well as the account activation charges in my next e-mail.
 


Thank you for banking with us




 
Your reference number is: PED374KD, be sure to quote this each time you contact us.
 
For queries on this fund remittance, feel free to contact us directly on any of the below telephone numbers / e-mail or fax :-



 
Sincerely,

Mr.Andy Meehan
Manager
Email: andy.meehan@yb-service.co.uk
 

Branch:  Bradford

Address: #14 Broadway
              West Yorkshire
              BD1 1EZ,
              United Kingdom.          
 
Tel:  +44-7011133815
Fax: +44-8704795053
 
Email: bradford@yb-service.co.uk
 
Yorkshire Bank®, Customers satisfaction is guaranteed.

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