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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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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: watsonjohn_unitdpt@w.cn
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 06:01:37 +0800 (CST)
Subject: file N0:HBUK/FD12M/10039/04‏

John S.Watson
chairman and chief executive officer
Chevron Corporation,
United Kingdom.
Tel: +447024015570


To Whom It May Concern


I am John S. Watson, chairman and chief executive officer of
Chevron Corporation, a position I assumed on January 1,
2010. at the foreign remittance department in Bank PHB
Benin( Bank PHB ). In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $24.5m dollars Twenty Four Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS
SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his
family on (Monday, 31 July, 2000, 13:22 GMT 14:22 UK ) in a
plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELOW:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm


Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin for the release of it property as
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking policy and laws but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make
this business proposal to you and release the money to you
as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and we don't want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after TEN years, the money will be
transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The
request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner


If Agreed to have this transaction done on confidential
basics that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect
to the provision of a foreign account,10% will be set aside
for expenses incurred during the transfer process and 50%
would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to
you arranged, you must response to my mail by providing your
full contact information
first having receive your information as required an
apllication letter will be written to the bank as relation
or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name,
your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and location where in the money will
be remitted.


Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application .I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and you
should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.If you wish to
speak to me here is my cell phone number +(44)702-401-5570.


You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter. Pls contact me back on my private email
address:(watsonjohn_unitdpt@w.cn) Trusting to hear from you
immediately.


Yours Faithfully,
John S. Watson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chevron Corporation

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