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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 Tookey <privatetimtookey2@videobank.it>
Reply-To: private_timtookey2@msn.com
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:11:56 +0100
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU IN THIS PROJECT?



From Mr. Tim JW.Tookey


Happy New Year!!!


With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings,and I hopeful that this
mail will meet you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact
might seems to you, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of it's
importance and the immense benefit it will be to us (YOU AND I ). If this
proposal do not meet your personal or desired business ethics kindly accept my
sincere apology, nevertheless, I strongly believe that it will. I am
Mr. Tim JW
Tookey ,the Financial Director, LLoyds Banking Group United Kingdom.


I am contacting you for a legitimate business transaction strictly to you. I
discovered a dormant account in our Bank during our last pre-auditing, with a
total sum of £14,500,000.00 {Fourteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand British
Pounds Sterling}. From my investigation, it was clear to me that the owner of
this dormant account by name John Shumejda is dead. For more details visit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm. Since his
death, nobody
has operated in this account because the account has NO BENEFICIARY
attached to it.


According to British Government, all dormant account will be
confiscated by law
if it remains dormant without any claim. I therefore solicit for your sincere
cooperation in receiving this fund in your account as the foreign
beneficiary of
the fund, to avoid confiscating of the fund by the British Government. For
details on that visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm.

If you are interested, kindly get back to me as soon as possible so I
can advise
you on the information needed from you which, the Attorney who is
going to work
with me here will use to start the paper work in your name and securing of
Letter of Probate and Letter of Administration from the Probate
Division British
Government {Where there is no WILL} that will legalize and authorize you the
beneficiary to the fund to enable the Bank release the fund to your account.

This transaction will be done in a legitimate procedure within 10
banking days.
Sharing will be 60% for me and 40% for you. Be informed that this
transaction is
100% total risk free on both sides. If you have any question kindly state them
in your reply to my email and I will respond to that.

Warmest regards,

Mr. Tim JW.Tookey
Financial Director
LLoyds Banking Group
United Kingdom.

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