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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: "SCOTLAND YARD POLICE LONDON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scotlandpolice22@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:04:51 -1200
Subject: Re: FROM THE SCOTLAND YARD POLICE LONDON. DO NOT IGNORE THIS MESSAGE AS IT IS A GREAT WARNING TO YOU

ATTN:Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr. Edward Mason of Scotland Yard Police, London. There is a report we got about you and the following fraudulent crooks bellow:

DR. WALTERS MIKE
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE UNIT
Mission Building
High Street, Osu-Re:
Accra - Ghana
Our Ref: RG-NG/DSU/AGH/10

1) MR. STEPHEN ROBERTS AND ROBERT WALTERS who claims to work with UNITY TRUST BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM )
unity_trust_bank23@yahoo.co.uk
enquiry@pb-unity.com MR.JAMES SAGE
account@pb-unity.com
'jamesbennett@thetimeuk.com' James Bennett
AccountingScan@dixonvalve.com


2) MR BECKER JOHNSON who claims to work witt BRITISH TAX AGENCY LONDON" <britshtaxagency45@yahoo.co.uk>MR BECKER JOHNSON

1. Governor/Deputy Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
2. Director of International/Foreign Remittance
3. Telex/Cable Department of CBN
4. Legal Department of CBN
5. Attorney General of the Federation
6. Correspondence Bank of CBN Overseas
7. Foreign Payment Committee/Panel CBN
8. Accountant General of the Federation
9. Contract Review/Conversion/Debt/Reconciliation Panels
10. Various Panels/Committee on Contract Payment with various names of fake military officials and civilians.
11. Various fake letters from, Senates, Central Bank of Nigeria
12. World Bank Auditors, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
13. Various correspondents, Pay-point officials and various safe deposit security companies.
14. Presidential Task Force (PTF)
15. Ministry of Finance
16. Ministry of Justice
17. Board of Inland Revenue
18. KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK LONDON
19. National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON) etc.
20. THE PAYMASTER GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION
21. IBTC DIRECTOR
22. Fidelity Trust Bank
23. NDDC
24. DEUTSCHE BANK

After a brief meeting with some top officers of Scotland Yard Police London in respect of your transaction and the fake officials and offices your are dealing, we decided to move into action in order to stop you from any further communication with those criminals that have being deceiving you. As a matter of fact, those people you have being dealing with are all fraudulent criminals who claims that they are what they are not. After my investigation, I discoverred that the above listed people who claims to be what they are not are all fake and a fraudulent criminal. If you must know, the offices and organizations that you have being dealing with in respect of this transaction are all fake due to the fact that it is this same fraudulent criminals who claims to be what they are not that opened all those fake e-mail addresses of those fake offices and bank. If you must know, they have being the same persons that have being impersonating those offices and banking organizations to!
send you mail in order to extort



we are aware of all your communication with those crooks. Mind you that all those money you sent to them are all a waste because those people you have being dealing with are not what you think they are. They are crook and fraudster whose main aim is to ruin your life and career. If you must know, those fake people that you have being dealing with have ruined a lot of people's lives and careers through their fraudulent activities in the past few months. We also tried to find out why you have being paying those crook without receiving your payment. We went deep to investigate who they are. After our investigation, we discovered that the truth remains the fact that they are fraudulent people in Nigeria. That is a clear indication that you are dealing with the wrong people. Though they claimed to be in London. But the truth is that they are operating from Nigeria. These set of people we are talking about have brought bad names to our country London. Based on that, we have dispat!
ched some of our dictatives to inv

I am sorry to tell you that you have being doped by all those above listed names who claims to be what they are not. But, do not worry because we are tracing them to arrest them where ever they are because some of my intelligent police officers are now investigating them to get them arrested and at the same time jail them. They are making success to trap them down. As soon as they get them, all the money you have being sending to them will be returned back to you. Do not pay any cent to them again. Also, stop any further communication with them because they are crooks and fraudulent people. Do not ignore this message as it is a very important message for you because we are trying to protect you against fraudulent activities. Do not worry, we will get them arrested any moment from now.

Again, do not give them any information because if you do, they will run away and you will loose all the money you have being sending to them. For your information, your total sum is not with those crooks and they are not the people that will release your money to you. Your total sum is with me now because I purposely stop your payment so that you will not be further deceived. So, stop communicating with them unless you want to go bankrupt and end up ruining your life and career. Any communication you have with them, we know and any mail you send to them, we will also know. Any more of that, I Mr. Ewdard Mason of Scotland Yard Police London and some other top officers like me will take a legal action against you if you decide not to listen to me.

When ever those fake, fraudulent criminals send mails to you or call you on phone, tell them not to send you mail or call you again because they are crooks. Be warned. This morning, your total sum is in our custody and we know that you are the beneficiary of this money. If really you want this fund, get back to me immediately so that I can direct you on how this fund will be released to you immediately without any delay. Do not send any cent to those scammers because they want to deceive you and at the end ruin your live and career. After that, they will now run away. If you have any good information on how we can locate those crooks to arrest them, please, forward it to me so that we can trap them down.

What you have to do now is to forward to us immediately your banking details, your contract/inheritance/next of kin details and your telephone and fax numbers including a copy of your international passport or your drivers license so that we can direct you to the bank that will pay you your total contract/inheritance/next of kin fund with immediate effect. Under 48hrs, your total sum will be credited into your account. Listen, your fund is not with those fraudulent people that you have being dealing with. Though they will still be sending you mails just to try and see if they can steal more money from you. The only thing you will be hearing from them is nothing but money! Money! Money! Yet you will not receive your money by the end of the day if you did not listen to me. Again, do not give them any information because we are looking for them to arrest them to enable us get all the money you have being sending to them and send it back to you. Then they will be jailed finally!
to rot there.

Sincerely,

Mr. Edward Mason
Scotland Yard Police London.


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