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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: "The Bank of England" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:24:51 -0700
Subject: "Certifications official Fees for (FSA)Financial Services Authority is Required"

Dear Sir,                                                         Dated 15th March 2010.

 

 Everything concerning this transaction have being secured, all the legal documents and all the checkbook and master gold credit cards have being issued on your behalf, we have also getting the consent of the (FSA) Financial Services Authority and the Consent of the Bank of England, which I head as the Executive Governor of Bank of England.

  

We have submitted the remaining documents to (HER ROYAL MAJESTY OFFICE) for their consent to be notified, which they have done last week Friday and sent back all the original supportive document back to my office and upon my arrival in my office, I saw everything and I was happy.

 

The only obligation remaining is just after we offset the official fees as officially requested by (FSA) certifications and then (FSA) Financial Services Authority will then give their final approvals and we will then move the motion so that upon your reacceptance of the Checkbook and Master Gold Credit Cards, you will start to make withdrawals of Both Cards and Checkbook without any authority interventions.

 

This is exactly what we really wanted to happen so that we can be able to manage your fund portfolio for you, both for investment aspect and other important issues that mighty come up financially, the reason why I keep repeating this matter is because you are aware that we don’t have much time left and I was able to secure some little extension on your behalf so that I will protect you and make sure you don’t loose your money.

 

I sent you some important documents over the weekend which I believe that you receive and you will need to sign on top of the documents and send the document back so that we will forward it to our legal department for final certifications and we will combine the document with others and post the original copies to you, that will be after you pay the official requested fees to enable us move the motion and get this matter completed as I have explain to you the best way of handling this matter is just straight forward without any further delay.

 

 

Thanks for banking with us

 

Regards

 

Mr. Mervyn Allister King

Tel: 00-44-78-79-14-0625

Tel: 00-44-74-04-39-3085

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