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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: "JAMES FADIN" <jamesfadin3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jamesfadin5@ymail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:20:10 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: RE: DORMANT ACCOUNTS BENEFICIARIES





FROM: MR JAMES FADIN


Dear friend,

RE: DORMANT ACCOUNTS BENEFICIARIES

I start by informing you that my name is Mr.James Fadin the Head of
Investigation unit of Financial Crimes International here in United
Kingdom.

The Financial Crimes Division under the National Criminal Intelligence
Service investigates crimes associated with financial institutions.

Today, this jurisdiction includes bank fraud, access device fraud
involving credit and debit cards, telecommunications and computer crimes,
fraudulent identification, fraudulent government and commercial
securities, and electronic funds transfer fraud.

The Financial Crimes Division (FCD) plans, reviews, and coordinates
criminal investigations involving Financial Systems Crimes, including bank
fraud; access device fraud; telemarketing; telecommunications fraud
(cellular and hard wire); computer fraud; automated payment systems and
teller machines; direct deposit; investigations of forgery, uttering,
alteration, false personation, or false claimsinvolving U.K. Treasury
Checks, U.K. Savings Bonds, U.K. Treasury Notes, bonds, and bills;
electronic funds transfer (EFT) including Treasury disbursements and fraud
within Treasury payment systems;fraud involving U.K. Department of
Agriculture Food Coupons and Authority to Participate (ATP) cards; Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation investigations; Farm Credit Administration
violations; fraud and related activity in connection with identification
documents and fraudulent commercial, fictitious instruments,foreign
securities.

The Division also coordinates the activities of the U.K. Secret Service
Organized Crimes Program, and oversees money laundering investigations.

We have been directed by the Prime Minister David Cameron to
identify,verify and further ensure that payments are effected to the
rightful owners of funds totaling 15 Billion British Pounds Sterling which
was discovered to have been dormant in various account over some years
otherwise the money held in dormant accounts would be used to fund youth
and community projects as earlier directed by former Prime Minister
Gordon Brown;you can confirm this in the website:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm


Inview of this directives, i have been able to make some concrete
arrangement to move out some funds through you as the next of kin.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position
that will enable the release of the deposit to you as the closest
surviving relation of one of the untraceable beneficiary that has huge sum
to be claimed. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the
money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of
kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 50/50.

In view of this, I shall be working with British Treasury,United Nations,
I.M.F and World Bank to repatriate the fund to you as the only surviving
next of kin to the original beneficiary then we arrange for when to meet
and share the proceeds 50/50.

I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find
no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that
you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to
you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.

Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal.You may
not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole political and banking sector. I am not
a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may
be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my profession dictates
that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a
lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in
total control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you
do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let
me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this
is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a
reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have
evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to
work with me and alerting my Government. I am the only one who knows of
this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted
you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing.

If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official
channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do
not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want
you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only
through the numbers I will provide for you and also through this email
address. I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official
lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess
our level of allegiance to our Government.

Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a
family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that
nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come
easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my
profession. Do not betray my confidence.

You can reply via: jamesfadin5@ymail.com


I await your response.

Yours Sincerely,

James Fadin


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