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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: "The Bank of England" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:08:05 -0800
Subject: WARNING ON EXPIRATION TIMING FROM MR. MERVYN ALLISTER KING.

New Page 2

Dear Sir,


The proximity of our e-mails shows our determination to ensure that your payment is dully completed. Without any iota of a doubt our consistency has been overwhelming we agree and would like to rightly say to you that we would not want all your efforts of the past to be unyielding. Presently we are approaching the week of the expiration time being 15th of March 2010, when our online real time banking would automatically shut down and all your funds would be on freeze and be taken to United Kingdom Treasuring department. This is also a time that can not be reversed. Once the automatic shut down of your online bank account is achieved it can not be reversed.

incase the executive Governor of Bank of England who is seriously handling this matter have sent your checkbook, please try and comply with the full payment of the official fees as requested by him because we will not hesitate to make sure we help you out, our aim is to make sure you receive your funds not losing your fund, this situation is indeed very serious and your urgent attention is required, I believe that this morning i saw couple of checkbook and master gold credit cards on the table of the executive Governor of Bank of England, Mervyn Allister king, I don’t know if yours is involved or not, but I believe yours will be there because we have a lots of people he is helping especially at this time in point where we want to clear this matter completely, try and complete the full payment officially required to enable the officer pays the (FSA) Financier services authority their official fees.

But incase if My boss Mr. Mervyn Allister King is already working on your matter, please ignore this letter because he ask me to update you and every other clients of the seriousness of this matter and right now he is on very serious meeting with the member of the parliament because he is a parliament member because they have serous issue to clear on this subject matter, your indeed very lucky for your project to be handle by him, (The Governor of Bank of England)

On this note we want to collectively implore you to strength your commitments by complying with the prerequisites and payment directives towards the concluding parts of your payment. Understand the need for you to adhere to this e-mail advisory, is for you to avert any last minute hitches associated with accessing your funds contained in the online bank account. Our job here is nearing its completion, once you comply with the final payment, acting as a facilitator to conclude all the necessary blue prints needed to justify the funds and your online account would be cleared for prompt operations. An MT-706 would be aligned to your online bank account and all subsequent transfers being met from your online bank account would be deducted from the deposit funds. Meaning that there would be no additional surcharges during transacting, either making transfers or receiving funds from other bank accounts. Payment via the checkbook and Master gold credit cards is
also involved just to make things easier for you.

All that is required by you to do is to acquire the necessary documentation, stating that your online account was legitimately instituted; the funds contained in the online account were also free and clear of any anomalies suggesting laundered funds or terrorism financing. This is the law and our bank under the international guild of banking swore to abide by these laws guiding the banking guild. Endeavourer to review all our communiqués for the past ninety days to understand the steps taken to protect you and your funds from any form of risks. We have worked round the clock in ensuring that this transaction has been a hitch free one from the onset, with this we implore you to adhere to this final notification by concluding the payment accordingly.



Thanks for banking with us

Regards

Mr. Mervyn Allister King
Tel: 00-44-78-79-14-0625
Tel: 00-44-74-04-39-3085

Note: Please give me a call for more clarifications and incase you don’t understand some point, then send me an email with your questions so I will clarify you because I am back to London and ready to complete this project, all the necessary document will be forwarded to you via DHL or UPS for security reasons so confirm the fees and then we complete this important matter for you.

God Bless you.

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