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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Allan Hurvitz" <investconsult2@clarofree.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: allanhurvitz2014@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:50:00 -0500
Subject: Let Us Partner ( Reply)

>From Mr. Allan Hurvitz
10-17 Cockspur Street, London,
SW1Y 5BL.United Kingdom.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your
personal ethics although, I wish to use this medium to get in touch with
you first because it's the fastest means. Though the Internet has been
greatly abused.

I will start by introducing myself. My names are Mr. Allan Hurvitz. I am
a consulting auditor attached with the private Banking Services of a
well-known bank here in the United Kingdom. In one of our periodic
auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with a holding balance of £550
Million (Five Hundred and Fifty million British Pounds Sterling), which
has not been operated for the past seven years or more.

Sometimes an individual will open a bank account, deposit money, and
then disappear into the thin air. Banks are not always able to find out
what has become of these silent customers, or to know whether they
should follow up on requests from people who claim to be heirs to the
accounts. The main problem is that the customer resides abroad and, due
to bank secrecy, the bank cannot publish notices in the international
press to locate the depositories. This has led majority of the banks to
refrain from opening small-deposit accounts for foreign customers; for
fear that they will forget that the account exists.

It has happened in the past, however, that customers pass away and their
heirs can neither prove the death, nor their heir ship. This was a
frequent occurrence during the wartime periods, and the banks have now
set up a simple, rapid resolution procedure operating to their
customers’ advantage. Dormant assets are defined as any assets deposited
with a bank (an account, a custody account or a safety-deposit box) for
which there has been no contact with the customer in the bank’s files
for the last ten years or more.

I am contacting you independently of this audit investigation and no one
has been informed of this communication, I have secretly discussed this
matter with a top senior minister official of the Department of Finance
here and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with
us, so that everything will be successfully because we will be working
hand in hand with him.

We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the original
depositor/beneficiary of this fund with my bank branch here so that the
head office of the bank can order the transfer to your designated bank
account when you apply for transfer as the inheritor of the fund.

It will be a bank-to-bank transfer and all I need from you is to stand
and claim the fund as the beneficiary. This transaction is totally free
of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate
from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. However,
this correspondence is private, and it should be treated in strict
confidence. If you know that you are capable to handle this transaction
on trust and can keep secret and you have a corporate or personal Bank
Account that can hold the fund.

I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send
an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is
capable to receive incoming funds.

I am posed to work this deal out with you if we can do business. As at
this moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business
until your response is received. As we have not met before, I will give
you all information you need to know about me as we progress with the
transaction.

I thank you for spearing moments of your very busy schedules to read my
proposal. I awaits your response via email.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Best Regards,

Mr. Allan Hurvitz.
Tel:+447087697139.





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