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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: "Tim Tookey" <mr_tookey0002@yahoo.com.hk> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:26:50 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: business deal



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From: Mr. Tim Tookey

I guess this letter might come to you as a surprise since I had no
previous correspondence with you, But with due respect I got your
contact from the internet in my research for a reliable and
trustworthy person who will be fit and capable to assist me in
handling a very confidential business transaction involving the
transfer of US35.5 million dollars only. The above fund is not
connected with arms, drugs or Money laundering; neither is it
related to any terrorist sponsor of any sort.
I am Tim Tookey, an accountant and a branch manager, The Board
members with the office of the Director, International
Remittances/Foreign Operation, has approved and accredited this
reputed bank to handle and transfer all foreign inheritance funds
this final quota of the year. During the course of my annual
general auditing, I discovered a domiciliary account that has not
been operated, for three years I have kept this secret within
myself. Now, I decided to seek your full co-operation and
partnership to move out these funds urgently. Hence; the dormant
nature of the account and without any traceable next of kin, if I
do not remit the funds out urgently, the account will be
confiscated and the funds will be re-channeled into the government
purse to be shared among themselves.
All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary to this dormant
account and to provide either an existing bank account or set up a
new Bank account immediately to receive this fund or you help to
seek an honest and reliable businessman who can assist us. I am
only contacting you as a foreigner because these funds cannot be
approved for a local account here and I am not supposed to be in
possession of such amount of dollars. But the funds can only be
approved to any foreigner whom I present as the beneficiary to the fI will use my position in the Bank to do all the underground work
and hasten the approval and release of the funds in your favor. I
will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you
confirm the funds in your account and ask me to come over to your
country for our subsequent sharing of the fund according by
percentages. This transaction will only take us 14 Banking days to
finalize. So do not border or entertain any atom of fears as all
modalities has been mapped out for us achieve success and this is
my 25 yrs in the banking industry.
At the successful completion of the transaction, You shall be
compensated with 35% of the funds for standing in as the
beneficiary while 5% will be mapped out to offset any expenses that
might arise in the course of the transfer, 10% will be channeled to
charity and 50% to me the originator of the Business.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine, as I will use
my office to see that the transaction is hitch free and will
destroy entire documents relating to the transaction once we
conclude the Deal. Please, you have been advice to keep "top
secret" for now as I am still in service and intend to retire after
we conclude this deal. Further details about this transaction will
be discussed in the subsequent correspondence.
Best regards,
Mr. Tim Tookey
Director Auditing Department
Lloyds TSB Bank
London, United Kingdom.

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