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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: Account Admin <accountant2008@videobank.it>
Reply-To: accountant2009@videobank.it
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 00:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?0JrQvtC80YM6INCk0L7QvdC0INC/0L7Qu9GD0YfQsNGC0LXQu9GPLA==?=


To:
The Fund Beneficiary,
Date: 02-04-2010.

Attn:Sir/Madam,

In Consideration of unclaimed payment in whatever form that may be outstanding in your books against all Banks in London,United Kingdom will be released.In recent meeting with Directors Foreign Operations and the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,it was agreed that all payments of any sum standing to every individual or corporate bodies will be released be it an Inheritance funds or lottery winning funds.

Looking into some transaction files,I discovered an outstanding payment approved in your favour which were unclaimed either due to certain irregularities or incomplete transfer process. In your transaction history/file,i found out that due process to effect release into your account was not properly followed and some Bank Officials might have demanded money from you during the process to help effect release of the Funds to you.

Usually such funds that could not be claimed after an initial transfer process were made, are returned to the Government treasury as unclaimed funds,but the decision of the Directors and the Prime Minister to release all outstanding payments is still a secret,but I am giving you the information so that you can hurry up to complete the requirements and be in right standing to apply for the release of your funds in time as it was agreed that only those that meet up with the requirements shall be in the right standing to recieve their payments.

It has been decieded and the policy strictly adhered to by the Directors and the top officials in the Foreign Exchange Departments.I will give you all the neccessary information you might need to recieve your full payments. Get back to me with your full name,address and telephone number.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Eric Daniels.

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