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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: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:20:30 -0700
Subject: MORE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT COINSTAR MONEYTRANSFER SYSTEM.

Dear Sir,

 

The new company that I went into partnership with is called Coinstar Money Transfer; my mutual agreement with them is that any transfer they will send to your account will comes to your account in your local currency, if your account as you provided is in euros that means the coinstar money transfer group will send your money to you automatically into euros, but if your account you presented to me is in USD then your money will goes in in USD with the day exchange rate, so meanwhile we are only going to send your money from here in British pounds which you already knows that every transaction from United Kingdom goes out in British pounds sterling so the Marginal difference charges will automatically do the exchange controls by themselves because the coinstar money transfer system does  not send bulk sending, we will send the money to you through many names of our agents because we already have mutual agreement with the company for sending of your funds bit by bit without any troubles, meanwhile all you need now to do is to clear the certification fees of the (FSA) financial service authority, then if that is cleared, then you will have no more troubles anymore in receiving your fund and your master gold credit cards as well will be sent to you without any more troubles, but if the certifications fees issue is not cleared according to the law, the Coinstar Money Transfer group will not start sending your fund to you because the agents must see the certifications certificate from (FSA) before they will start sending your money to you bit by bit and if FSA did not give their authorization, there is no way, we will send the checkbook and master gold credit cards to you without proper channel because is against the law of United Kingdom.

 

Lets handle this matter legally and make sure we don’t work against the government rules and regulations because my reputation is at stake if I go against the rules here and I have being able to secure extension for you on this subject matter because we must get this matter completed for you before the end of this month and your urgent attention to this matter will be highly appreciated. I need your urgent attention so that we will both make sure we clear up this matter and help you to get this transaction completed and finalize without any further delay. please go online on the website of this new company coinstar money transfer system, you will understand everything said about them and that will help you to understand that you must follow their rules and regulation so that this matter can be completed for you.

You can go check their website on: www.cmtmoney.com

 

 

Thanks for banking with us

 

Regards

 

Mr. Mervyn Allister King

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

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

 

Note: Please give me a call for more clarifications and incase you don’t understand some point, then send me an email with your questions so I will clarify you because I am back to London and ready to complete this project, all the necessary document will be forwarded to you via DHL or UPS for security reasons so confirm the fees and then we complete this important matter for you.

 

God Bless you

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