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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: "EVANS TIMOTHY" <evanstimothy_2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: evanstimothy_2005@myway.com
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:30:51 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN




>From Mr. Evans Timothy.
Natwest Bank London,
123 Victoria St,
London SW1E6DE,
Email: evanstimothy_2005@myway.com,

Dear Sir,

I am a staff of Natwest Bank London. I am writing following an oppurtunity
in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 10.5million British
Pounds Sterling (Ten million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who nfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his
wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this
site.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about this death, we have been expecting his next
of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the
knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to
make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don.t want this
money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds. We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit
your
country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above
once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is
our watchword in this transaction.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do
receive your response.

Please in your response include the following particulars:

1) YOUR FULL NAME/CONTACT ADDRESS:

2) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER:

3) BANK NAME/ACCOUNT NUMBER:

4) NATIONALITY/AGE:

5) A COPY OF INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT:

Note: while waiting for your intrest regard to this confgidential business
proposal, the required information about you are to be used to effect the
remmitance of this fund to you.

Thanks

Best regards
Mr. Evans Timothy.


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