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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +440703184512

Fraud email example:

From: =?UTF-8?Q?john=5F1960?= <john_1960@o2.pl>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:22:30 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?PAYMENT=20NOTIFICATION=20LETTER.?=


Dear Friend,

This is to notify you about the status of your fund right now in our desk. After due vetting and evaluation of your contract file, which The World Bank Debt Relief Council Forwarded and contracted us to see to your immediate payment.

From our findings, you have been going through hard ways by paying a lot of charges to see to the release of your fund, which has been delayed. Please, from now henceforth stop further communication with any correspondence from anywhere in the World, especially Nigeria in West Africa.

You are not to pay any unneccesary charges to receive your contract/Inheritance funds anymore as you have meet up with the whole requirements. Your representatives in Africa will tell you to still go ahead with them but on your own risk.

Forward your Non-Resident Clearance Form/Receipt to this office. We have been paid for handling/processing of your payment with other contractors. As soon as we receive the form from you, We (BACKLAYS BANK PLC, LONDON) will effect your payment immediately.

Will you follow up our directives, your fund will reflect in your account within seven working days from the day we receive the form from you. Do not respond to any correspondence again but only to this offshore payment office here in London if you're really the beneficiary and want your contract fund to be released immediately.

Direct all message email address ID: backlaysbankplcuk@o2.pl
Congratulations in advance.

Rev. John Edward Fox
Payment Coordinator
Backlays Bank Plc. Uk
Tel/Fax: +44-0-703-184-512

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