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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. HARRISON SMITH" <Hebert8@wc1ms9r2h.homepage.t-online.de>
Reply-To: <mrharrisonsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:23:32 -0800
Subject: get back to me

SUBJECT: STATUTORY ANOMALIES ON YOUR FUND TRANSFER.
FROM: MR. HARRISON SMITH

We are the Comptroller of Fund movement Terminal and Director of Statutory Department of Inter Banks Credit Commission. My Department is affiliated to FSA, UN, WORLD BANK, W.A.F. Our Liaison Desk is situated at the West African Terminal 122 of Union Bank Plc and in Asia at the RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA, European Terminal at the DUTCH AUCTION SYSTEM with head office in the New York City attached to the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, which oversees and inspects the fund movement pre-inspection for all Central and world Bank and other related ECOWAS member states. I and my colleague MR. STEVEN FLOYD THOMPSON from Northlake, Illinois USA. He is in charge of the American Terminal.

My name is MR. HARRISON SMITH from Queens land, Australia. In view of my position as introduced and explained above, I have this privileged information for you out of sympathy to save your fund from a big problem, which will ruin your fund payment at your bank by the US monitoring agents.

THE BACKGROUND OF THIS REASONS it may interest you to know that fund transfer irregularities and misconduct of huge sums of money around the World has created suspicions on any movement of large amount, for this reason, the United Nations has formed a committee on Finance/Economic matters. This Committee was mandated to deliberate on all fund movement above $5,000,000.00USD and also to recover all suspected funds. Consequently, my Department has been mandated to assist to monitor all fund movement around the world. Since our establishment, two years ago the sum of $18 billion dollars has so far been recovered. We execute the pre-investigative formalities and all statutory requirements for the World Bank. The purpose is to monitor, pre-inspect, recommend or defer your fund movement or seizure of the fund at your bank or on transit or cable.
Unfortunately, our Terminal in New York has been monitoring the routing of your fund for seizure. I became sympathetic to you for such attempt to carry on. Hence, I decided to contact you privately in order to advice you, which will enable you, receive the fund successfully without any seizure or threat on the fund. Therefore, this letter is highly confidential and top secret. For this reason, you must not inform anybody about this letter or my contact with you until you have received your money.

You must keep my relationship with you top secret and highly confidential. If you can follow my advice and instructions, I will inform you the only way out for the dispatch of your funds peacefully without any seizure by either your bank or the US Monitoring Agencies. But if you ignore my advise, your funds movement by bank transfer will surely hit a brick wall and you will keep spending money and time and energy without any success until you forfeit the whole amount, which will be deferred at that time for a seizure when the Monitoring Unit will adopt the motion for seizure. The September 11th 2001 bombing of the WTC in USA has compelled a strict monitoring and checks on all huge sums of money around the globe. For this reason, the security Network in UNITED STATES has requested us to investigate any fund above $5,000,000.00USD, which has been routed for transfer.

In pursuit of that, I discovered so many anomalies, which may create the security network for seizure of your fund. And your bank may start asking, which may even put the bank into trouble for suspicions by the USA Security Network as a bank that keeps Terrorist fund. I am writing this letter out of sympathy and I am willing to assist you and avoid any danger to the successful conclusion. In order to help you, the following are my conditions:

1. You must keep my relationship with you highly secret/confidential.
2. You must not expose all the above information to anybody.
3. You must be willing to act fast on any information, directives and advice from me.
But if you expose this information, I will be compelled to do the right report and in that case, you will blame yourself. The method for you to receive this fund is by cash at your doorstep, which I and MR. STEVEN FLOYD THOMPSON will deliver to you at your address. Further details on this arrangement will be furnished to you as soon as I have received your comments to carry on. By then, I will be in a good position to explain to you more on how to carry out the mission.
As soon as I receive your response, First I will scan and send you my passport and I will tell you more on the way of such arrangements and I will also inform you our percentage that you will be required to give us as soon as we have handed over the fund to you at your address.
Therefore, further details will be furnished to you and my identity will be forwarded to you as soon as I receive your reply and forward the following so that I will commence all the necessary arrangement to my private email address ()

Full Name:..................................................
Full Address:...............................................
Age.........Sex:..........Occupation:..................
Mobile/Telephone:......................................
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. HARRISON SMITH

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