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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: "MARK JOSEPH CARNEY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <2492366959@qq.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:18:46 -0700
Subject: RE: YOUR FUNDS

RE: YOUR FUNDS

I have e-mailed you many times and you have not responded. Maybe
someone hacked password of your e-mail account; checks your e-mail
account without your knowledge; reads the mails that I previously sent
to you and then deleted the mails after reading. I advise you to
change the password of your e-mail account if at all you can receive
this e-mail ahead of the hacker.

As I stated in the previous e-mails that I sent to you, your funds
were in a bank in West Africa which you have been expecting /
struggling to receive and numerous efforts that you have always made
to receive the funds were unsuccessful. Some treacherous officials of
the bank tired to divert the funds to a bank/account here in UK. The
process that they implemented for the funds transfer was illicit;
against rule of intercontinental funds transfer operation and also
contrary to BIS decree. It was detected and Bank of England
commandeered the funds. Bank of England is Central Bank of United
Kingdom (UK). I personally made investigations and observed the funds
belong to you although I would not realize the actual source of the
funds.

I got your e-mail and I have e-mailed you numerous times through my
official e-mail account and have not gotten your response thus far.
This is my reason of advising that someone may have hacked password of
your e-mail account; checks your e-mail account without your
knowledge; reads the mails that I previously sent to you and then
deleted the mails after reading.

I use private e-mail account to write to you at present instead of
using my official e-mail account because I do not want anybody to have
knowledge of my communication with you anymore. The webmasters of Bank
of England do monitor any communication that traverses
www.bankofengland.co.uk and my secretaries know password of my
official e-mail account as I permitted them to check my e-mail account
from time to time especially when I am busy or off-limits. So my
reason of using private e-mail account to write to you now is to
prevent all workforce of Bank of England to have knowledge of my
communication with you. It is for your own advantage so that the funds
will not be confiscated since the Board of Directors and Supervisory
Board Members of Bank of England do not know that the funds are still
reserved in the vault of Bank of England till now.

I reserved the funds in Suspense Account of Bank of England. Suspense
Account is an account in the general ledger in which funds are
temporarily recorded. It is used because proper account for
beneficiary of the funds could not be determined at the time that the
transaction was done and the funds will be moved from the Suspense
Account to proper account of beneficiary of the funds when the proper
account of the beneficiary of the funds is determined.

Bank of England is planning to carry out its Annual Audit. It is
annual review of its financial records. The audit check accuracy of
records, compliance with accounting methods, soundness of financial
practices and internal controls. It is obvious the funds will be
discovered during the process and shall be confiscated. I never wanted
the funds to be returned to bank of Africa again because these
hypocritical bank officers of the bank in Africa that had the
treacherous intent to divert the funds to UK shall probably strive to
ensure the funds vanish completely without reaching your hands anymore
if the funds are returned to Africa.

My plan is to reroute the funds to your bank account from vault of
Bank of England and I want the funds transfer to your bank account to
be protected with authorization so that any question that might arise
in the future as regards the funds whereabouts shall be defended
legitimately.

There is banking Gazette that is known as Deed of Disbursement. BIS
introduced the Gazette that is used to record doubtful funds
transactions. BIS is Bank for International Settlement that is
headquarter in Switzerland. The Gazette is invented and rooted for
continents. All banks in apiece continent uses identical Gazette of
the Deed of Disbursement. So both CBN of Nigeria, BCEAO of Republic of
Benin, BOG of Ghana, other apex banks and commercials banks in the
West Africa such as BOA, Banque Atlantique, UBA, Diamond, Eko Bank
etc, do use identical Gazette of the Deed of Disbursement.

I want you to contact Mr. Chukwudi Mathew. I know him in person. He is
a certified Notary Officer that is linked with BCEAO. I have spoken to
him. He knows the requirements to obtain the Deed of Disbursement. The
certificate is free of charge (at no cost). You are not expected to
pay any money to get the Deed. I would like you to contact him without
delay so that he will tell the particulars that you are supposed to
provide. He is a very honest man with compassion, morality and
civility. I have had exchange of ideas with him concerning the Deed
and he promises to provide it for you. I will officially make a record
of the funds transfer with UK HM Treasury as soon as the Deed is
available and then reroute the funds to your bank account instantly.
The UK HM Treasury is government’s economic and finance ministry that
maintains control over public spending, setting the direction of UK’s
economic policy and working to achieve strong and sustainable economic
growth.

His e-mail address are as follows:-


Dr.Mathew Chukwudi
Tel: +234 9091368446
Email: 2492366959@qq.com



I have had dialogue with the man “Mr. Chukwudi
Mathew”. try to contact him by Phone/e-mail and act faster so that the funds
shall be moved to your bank account on time before the effecting of
the Annual Audit of Bank of England which will occur soon.

Yours faithfully,

Mark Joseph Carney
Governor of Bank of England
(Central Bank of United Kingdom UK)
Chairman of G20's Financial Stability Board

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