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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: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:19:06 -0800
Subject: "Your Urgent Response is Required"

New Page 1

Dear Sir,

 

 Is indeed,  very nice working with you on this subject matters, we are  now approaching the 15th day of the month of March 2010 and I believe you do understand what I mean and we indeed, which you the best of the day and also want to let you have a common understanding with us  in this subject matter.

 

My aim as the executive Governor of Bank of England is to make sure that this fund totally ($36,000,000.00) thirty six million united states dollars belongs to you is secured properly for you and paid to you, so for this job to be possible, we need your full support and you also need to be comparative to us as well when it comes to keeping this matter total confidential, so it matters a lots to our job.

 

For instance, maybe you have not handle this type of amount of money before up to the tune of  ($36,000,000.00) thirty six million dollars at once, I think is possible, and before the arrival of this fund to your account and you went to your bank and start making enquiries asking your bank to help you verify if really this  fund exist, yes if you do that, your bank will place your account on red flag, so anytime such funds came into your account, you will then have a lots to explain to your bank which is very dangerous to your personality as a client receiving such advance.

 

So right now I just want to let you understand the fact that this money worth ($36,000,000.00) is yours and we are not going to transfer it at once to you because you will have problem, what we will do is after you as the beneficiary complete full settlement of the officially required fees, we will then have the Butterfield Private Bank, who have open an account on your behalf so far, to send the copies of the checkbook and master gold credit cards which we have sent to some of our client already and with this method, you will issue a check of any tune of money but to limit of one million dollars per withdrawal from either your bank or any bank, all you need is to have your proper identity attached to the bank id cards that we are going to send to you for proper identifications on your true beneficiary status, then the bank will honor your check and pay you the requested amount that you have written on your checkbook.

 

Then the master gold credit cards withdrawal is just for $7,000 per day as limit, so you will not be able to make withdrawal from the cards per day, more than $7,000 per day as, limit with the cards, but you can shop online as much as you want with the cards without any trouble.

 

Lastly, you as a legal customer of the Butterfield Private Bank, who is now maintaining foreign account with Butter field Private account, which is popularly known as offshore account have the  legal right to write Butterfield Private Bank to help you make a wire from your offshore account with them to any account in any part of the work via direct bank to bank wire transfer without any problem because our bank is 100% protective to all our client that operate the offshore account, we don’t declare this funds to United Kingdom Government completely with the help of (FSA) Financial Services Authority.

 

This is the reason why we need to clear all the supportive documents and get full certifications from (FSA) Financial Services Authority which have gone very strong in UK  international market and they are now controlling UK markets making sure that Dollars Transaction and pounds transaction Including the Euros Transaction are stable this time around because since the general financial economics meltdown, many banks in UK and all over the world really got lots of distress, banks never release loans anymore like before, banks never support loans and many things like before, so you will be the best clients so far into international transaction and also in market worlds because this is real bigger capital for you to use and enter into proper investment with my full support on the investment programs that will yield lots of profits for you within the duration of 3month you will be ($7,000,000.00) seven million dollar richer than before the transaction started.

 

Lets work together and please follow my instructions and proper advise so that we will finalize this project which have almost complete for you to be completed for you and is of your own benefits for you to have what belongs to you, please kindly update me with your enquiries or incase you have any questions to ask, please feel free to call my contact telephone numbers below and I will be very glad to respond to your questions immediately, have a wonderful day my good brother and I hope and which to see you through this transaction and your urgent attention will be highly appreciation.

 

 

Thanks for banking with us

 

Regards

 

Mr. Mervyn Allister King

Tel: 00-44-78-79-14-0625

Tel: 00-44-74-04-39-3085

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