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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: Churchill George <glc2009@live.com>
Reply-To: churchillgeorge@live.com
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM MR.CHURCHILL GEORGE.




Dear Friend,

How are you today and your family? I hope all is good, kindly pay
attention and understand my aim of communicating you today through this
letter, my name is Mr.Churchill George, Regional Managing Director
NatWest Bank, East Anglia and Northern Home Counties -London.

I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the
execution of
the deal described here-under for our mutual benefit, and hope you will
keep it a top secret because of the nature of the transaction, during the
course of our bank year auditing, I discovered an unclaimed/abandoned
fund, sum total of £ 13.800,000 GBP (Thirteen million Eight hundred
thousand British Pounds sterling) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers (Late Mr. Terry Ryan) an American who unfortunately lost
his life and family, in the plane crash.

Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the
claim but nobody has done that. I sincerely seek your consent to
presenting you as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the deceased so
that the proceeds of this account valued at {GBP£ 13.8 Million British
Pounds Sterling} can be paid to you, which we will share in these
Percentages ratio, 60% to me and 40% to you.

All that I require from you is your sincere co-operation; trust and utmost
confidentiality to enable us conducts this transaction successfully. I
assured you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your
country and here in London once the fund is transferred to your bank
Account. Upon your consideration and acceptance of this offer, please
proceed immediately and send to me the following information.

-Your Full Name,
-Your Contact Address &
-Your direct Mobile telephone Number.

This information will enable me to upload your data into our bank database
to reflect in the bank network system that you are the named next of
Kin/will beneficiary of this fund and I will guide you on how to open
communication with the bank and make the claims for onward transfer of the
fund to you, please note that we have few days to carry out this deal,
your kind speedy response through my personal Email: churchillgeorge@live.com
Will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

Mr. Churchill George
Regional Managing Director

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