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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: <mail@whkbn.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:03:51 -0000
Subject: VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL




>From The Desk Of: Johnson Smith
File Department Finance Manager,
Lloyds TSB Bank PLC,
78 Tottenham Court Road, London.
Telephone: +447924020853 or +442084858511.

PLANE CRASH WEB SITE http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html


Compliments Of The Season,
I am Johnson Smith , a senior staff in file department;Lloyds TSB London United Kingdom. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 100.5 million British pounds . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in (Friday December 26th,2003 ) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin 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, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a British Citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and my woman colleague. There after I and my colleague will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,kindly send me the following information:

1.Occupation:
2.Full names:
3.Date of birth:
4.Nationality:
5.Country of residence:
6.country of origin
7.Your private telephone and fax number:

If you are Interested, Kindly contact me as soon as possible for further direction.

Yours faithfully,
Johnson Smith

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will provide to the bank



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