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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: mrtalbot edward <mrtalbotedward2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:59:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dearest,


MR. TALBOT EDWARD
PRIVATE BANKERS,
7, WIND MILL ST,SOHO,
LONDON,W1T 2JD.
RC NO :P/B -0034 -G.B.N.

Dearest,

I have a proposal for you, it is neither mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you, against your wish to honor it. I know that the contents of this mail might sound strange to you, but every word of it is true. I am Mr. Talbot Edward, the former credit officer of one of the leading British based private investment bankers. I have a concealed business suggestion for you.

Before the plane crash that killed Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic on February 26, 2004, Dimka Ilkova Boskovic from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Macedonia and also a business woman made a fixed deposit for 12 calendar months, with a value of Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only, in my branch. You will more information on Mrs. Dimka Boskovic’s death on the link below as published.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-64C8ML?OpenDocument
My appointment at the bank was terminated when I disclosed to the British Treasury Department officials that were on routine inspection of my banks, that the above funds have been dormant for the past two years and should be declared as unclaimed funds. Before this incidence, the board of directors of my bank adopted a resolution mandating me, as the account officer to Mrs.Dimka Ilkova Boskovic, to provide her next of kin so that her funds can be transferred to them.

I was unable to get any of her next of kin because Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic did not declare any next of kin in all her official account documents including the deposit slip. And she also confided in me that no one except me knew of the deposit in my bank. This has made it impossible to locate or appoint any of her relation as next of Kin.

Now the sum of Nine Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in the bank vault and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that the directors will in the next one month invoke the abandoned property acts of 1991 to confiscate and declare the funds ‘unclaimed’ after the expiration of the mandatory period.

Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, I was fortunate to come across your name. My suggestion to you is that you stand as the next of kin to Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic.

I have all the necessary documents and information which will enable you put in a successful application as the next of kin. Payment will then be made to you and that will stop these evil directors from confiscating the funds. With the documents and information at my disposal couple with the help of my friend in the bank, nothing will ever stop you from succeeding in claiming this deposit in the next two weeks if we apply with your name.

All I require for us to succeed is your honest cooperation, trust and assurance that you will not cheat me out of the deposit when payment is made to you. The application will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me, from any breach of the law.

Be Inform also, that we shall share the funds in the ratio of 70% for me and 25% for you, while 5% should be for expenses and tax as I understand you may need to pay taxes on the funds when it gets to your country.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. I will disclose more information to you as soon as you signify your interest. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated via my private Contact email address: mrtalbotedward100@yahoo.co.uk
Kind regards,
Mr. Talbot Edward.

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