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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: "JACK HORTON" <prooffer2009@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: infous@lookup.co.cc
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:10:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: PLEASE CALL ME AS YOU PROMISED




Payment Supervisors Unit
Int'l Payment & Monitoring Bureau,
Financial House,
Uxbridge Road London,
W5 5SA England - United Kingdom.
Phone:+44-7031881813
Email us at infous@myrevmail.co.cc/jackhorton@megaregistry.com

Dear beneficiary,



REF- YOUR OUTSTANDING FUND PAYMENT:

Good day, this is to inform you of your Long overdue Payment outstandiing
in our Banking records and foreign beneficiaries

upon the recommendation of the UK AND West African And Asia monetary union
in the year 2008 overe here. I saw your name in

the Central Computer-Ministry of Finance among list of unpaid inheritance
claims individuals and have to update your

informations contact through this email contact for your immediate
confirmation response back to my office without delay.

Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment
of US$7.500,000 Million (Seven Million and Five

Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) and it has been approved already
for payment months ago by the Ministry of Finance.
However we received an email from one Mr.Fu Kwok Wing, who told us that he
is your next of kin and that you died in a car

accident last four months back. He has also submitted his account
informations to the office department for transfer of the

fund payment credit to him as your inheritor of the fund stated herein.

Bank:BANK OF CHINA (Hong Kong)LTD.
409-415 Hennessy Rd, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
Account Number:012-611-92068403.
Account Name:Fu Kwok Wing.
SWIFT CODE:BKCHHKHH.

We are now verifing by contacting your email address as we have in our
Bank records before we can make the transfer into his

account and for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or still alive.

Please, in your reply confirmation to my office if still alive , you
should indicate the following re-confirmation

informations thus below for your immediate transfer payment of your
approved fund to your position account or Issue Certified

International Bank Draft into your receiving account urgently:

1. Your Name in Full

2. Your Address (Current Address )

3. Your Telephone Number ( Cell Phone )

4. Your Occupation & Postion Held

5. Your Age & Marital Status

6. Your Acoount Details.

With these your re-confirmation informations indicated above when
acknowledged receipts by this unit International Monetary

Fund ,we will expedict action immediately on your behalf to release
transfer total amount effectively to your receiving

position without further delay within 5 Bank working days .

We sincerely apologise for all your past inconvinences delayed in paying
your fund to your account.

Regards
Jack Horton
Email us at infous@myrevmail.co.cc/jackhorton@megaregistry.com








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