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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. Herbert Coutts" <mrherbertct2@att.net>
Reply-To: mrherbertcutts1@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:18:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Mr. Herbert Coutts


From: Mr. Herbert Coutts
Tel"+44 7035953270

RE-TRANSFER OF £250,000.000.00-[Two Hundred And Fifty Million GBP Only}
Good day.

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.I am Mr.Herbert Coutt, from Bank Of Scotland
and an Executive Consultant Officer in the International Remittance
Department and the personal account officer to the great late Deceased
who has an account in one of the top banks here in London, United
Kingdom.

The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2004 without a written or
oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again
hence the money is floating, and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing, and Government of
United Kingdom will confiscate The funds for their personal use which I
personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a
great opportunity in my life.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund
{£250,000.000.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea
account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
Confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and
reliability to prosecute a transaction of thisgreat magnitude. I
solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.You can either provide us with an
existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive
this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long
as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important
business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let
me down in future because this business is my life.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company. My
investigation through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me as well that he was single as at the time
of his entry into the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, I have
decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.

I had discussed this issue privately with the Top Bank Director and he
agreed to help and have instructed me to look for a foreigner who can
be trusted and capable to handle this transaction so that we can
secretly move this money out from UK immediately basing on
Investments plans in your Country. I guarantee that this will be executed under a concrete special arrangement that will protect us from
any breach of law. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and you should not entertain any fears as the
required arrangements have been made for the completion of this operation.

Be informed that the total amount involved is £250,000,000.00-GBP but
we will transfer the fund in two batches, we will start the initial
transfer with £150,000,000.00-GBP and after the successful sharing of
the first transfer without any disappointment from your end, we will be
together and apply for the second remaining part of £100,000.00-GBP.


I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local person here due to law in United Kingdom.
At the conclusion of this PROJECT, your share will be 35% of the total
transfer sum, 60% for me, while 5% will be set aside for any expenses
both parties might incur during the transfer process, because once the
fund goes into your account, we will first reimburse all expenses
before the actual sharing according to our agreed percentage. Take note
of that.

If you are interested, please forward the following information as
below:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ....................
{7} Your telephone Number. both Home, Office &
Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers.........................
{8} Your Occupation..............
{9} Your Valid ID ...................

Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be Activated by the
feeding of your data into payment system, followed by a signal that
will be sent to the paying bank to remit the funds into your nominated
bank account within 7 official working days of receipt of the above
information.

Best Regards,
Mr. Herbert Coutts

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