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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: "James Campbell" <jamesatlaw@lawyers.co.uk>
Reply-To: jamesatlaw@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:52:49 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Confirm Receipt

FROM THE DESK OF JAMES CAMPBELL.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
UNITED TRUST BANK
UNITED KINGDOM

READ CAREFULLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am the manager at the auditing and accounting department of one of the
commercial banks here in United Kingdom In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$33.5m dollars ( US dollars) in an account that
belonging to one of our foreign customer Mr. Andreas Schranner. Who died
along with his entire family on Monday,31 July,2000 in a plane crash in
paris.Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors
brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

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 laws 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 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 six years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
from hong kong. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a
respect to the provision of a foreign account ,10% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter,
I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your
designated bank account, you must apply first to the bank as a relation or
next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that i will send to
you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax
number for easy and effective communication and location where in the
money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by
fax or email the text of the application . I will also give you our bank
site and the account information with the security access codes for you to
view the account information online.

I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and
that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immediately.


Regards,
Yours Faithfully,
James Campbell.

NB: I will like you to keep this very confidential.


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