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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: "DAVID MARK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <edmundsoffice2@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:44:23 -0000
Subject: ATTN: THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL MESSAGE FROM INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT


Attn: Beneficiary

INLAND REVENUE/FUNDS DEPARTMENT
LONDON, ENGLAND
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
UNITED KINGDOM
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS.
CONTACT: MR. JAMES WANG
+447024064951, +447045761496
Email:edmundsoffice2@gmail.com

We received an email from a Lady called (Ms. Julie Anderson) stated that she is your younger sister, she told our office that you have given her permission to claim FUND valued at USD1,500,000,00 Dollars as part payment of your total sum and also do confirm the original Contract/Inheritance claim fund to enable us update our file, this fund was program due to the Inland Committee on resolution to pay all Foreign Contract/Inheritance claim fund still in our custody.

Since we have not heard from you regarding the claim despite losing your information you have submitted for this claim. In this vein, you are urgently requested to re-send your required information below to our office immediately on receipt of this mail for a safe and hitch free delivery/Transfer which has been approved by the Senate committee via Citibank of London to be paid and delivered to you, Now she has contacted us that she will pay the balance left for the delivery/Transfer of the FUND to her via a UNITED STATES BANK ACCOUNT but we are not satisfied with the information presented for the delivery.

Below is the information she has submitted for the delivery/Transfer of the FUND of USD1, 500,000.00 Dollars.

Name: Ms. Julie Anderson
Current Address: 1019 8th Avenue North, Washington 98109
United States of America
Telephone: 206-339-9411
NATIONAL BANK OF CENTRAL TEXAS
ROUTING #111904419
ACCOUNT #1091105073
SWIFT CODE NABKUS4A


We would like to know and to confirm if you are the one that gave her the power of claim, if yes, kindly provide a letter of authorization authorizing to our Bank to release the FUND of USD1, 500,000.00 Dollars to her, if no? you are to quickly inform this office to avoid wrongful delivery/Transfer and also make your readiness to make expedite action on the quick delivery/Transfer of your FUND to you without wasting much time to avoid this kind of re-occurrences with information stated below in other for us to deliver/Transfer your FUND of USD1, 500,000.00 to your mailing address within 48 hours as follows.

(1)Full Name:...................
(2)Address:.....................
(3)Phone Number:................
(4) Your Occupation/Position


CONTACT CITIBANK INTEGRATED PAYMENT DEPARTMENT WITH THE DETAILS BELOW:
Contact Name: Mr. James Wang
Email:edmundsoffice2@gmail.com
This information is to be made available immediately so that your FUND TRANSFER can be issued under the provided name .

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (CITI-1014) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE REMITTANCE CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

You should henceforth STOP further dealings with any group of person's who pose themselves as people in charge of your FUNDS be warned to avoid delay in receiving your payment.

Regards,

DAVID MARK
(CHAIRMAN COMMITTE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT/AWARD WINING PAYMENT UNITED NATION/INLAND REVENUE OF LONDON)

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