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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: "MR.TIM TOOKEY" <timtookeyprivate2@o2.pl>
Reply-To: private_timtookey2@msn.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:20:22 +0100
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Greetings to you

With warm heart I offer my friendship, and I hopeful that this mail will meet
you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might
seem to you
as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I
humbly ask that
you take due consideration of it's importance and the immense benefit it will
be to (YOU AND I ). If this e-mail letter of proposal fails to meet your
personal or desired business ethics kindly accept my sincere apology,
nevertheless, I strongly believe that it will. Firstly, my full name
is Tim J W
Tookey the present Finance Director to LLoyds Banking Group, United Kingdom.
View my profile for more about me:
http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/about_us/directors/executive_directors.asp#timtookey

My proposal is that, after our Emerge with Bank of Scotland I was
going through
some file as the Financial Director and discovered a dormant account, with a
balance of £15,000,000.00 (Fifteen- Million Pounds Sterling). From my
investigation, the owner of the said account, a foreigner by name John
Shumejda.
After going into deeply investigation I found out that John Shumejda
died on the
4th of January 2002 in a plane crash. For more details visit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm

I therefore propose to do business with you by receiving this fund in any of
your preferable account as the next of Kin, an empty account can serve
provided
it is valid. I contacted you because, if this fund is not transfer out
urgently
the fund will be diverted to the British Treasury as Unclaimed fund because of
the law imposed by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. For more
information
about the prime Minister decision on dormant accounts visit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm

I can assure you as one of the Bank Executives and an expert in this
field that,
this fund can be approve for payment to any foreigner because their is no name
attached the account by the deceased as next of Kin. Be informed that this
transaction is 100% total risk free: and troubles as the fund is
legitimate and
does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other
illegal act.
Upon the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will be
given 40%
of the total amount while 60% will be for me. If you are interested,
kindly get
back to me as soon as possible so I can advice you on how to proceed for the
successful transfer of the Fund in your account without any suspicious.

Warm Regards,

Mr. Tim Tookey.

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