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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: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr.=20Thomas=20Cox?=" <sir.tcox@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sir.thomascox@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:25:58 -0300
Subject: Esteemed Compliments

From: Mr. Thomas Cox
The Regional Manager
Allied Irish Bank
Canada Square England
TEL: +44-702-407-0437

Esteemed Compliments,

I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion
or willingness on this classified information that I will release to you.

Firstly, I am a happily married man with 4kids and therefore I would not
want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial status that
will give my family a secured future.

I am Mr. Thomas Cox, the branch manager of the Allied Irish Bank Of
England, Canada Square Branch. I got your information during my search
through the Internet.. I am 65 years of age and married with 4lovely kids.
It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want
problem, but I don't know how you will feel about this, but I am telling
you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this
transaction with me. I only hope we can assist each other. But If you
don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you
again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the Regional manager of the Allied Irish Bank Of England, Canada Square
Branch; It is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in
the capital city London -England at the end of each year. On the course of
the last year 2010 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in
which I am the Manager made Twelve Million Seven Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United State Dollars (USD $12,750.000.00) which my head office are
not aware of and they will never be aware of, Nor must they know that I am
involved in this transaction.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE OR ESCROW ACCOUNT
without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank I can not be directly
connected to this money, am contacting you for us to work so that you can
assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE, while
you will have 35% of the total fund. Note there are practically no risk
involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to
stand claim as the rightful depositor of this fund who made the deposit
with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your
designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me.

I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I
will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully.. Please to
proceed with me in this transaction I will appreciate if you provide me
this information mentioned below.

1) Full Name
2) Occupation
3) Age:
4) Telephone Number/fax number:
5) Your Country of Origin:
6) Sex/ Marital Status:
7) Contact Address:
8) Driven License or international passport

Looking forward to a cordial Business relationship with you, Please
contact me through my private email address (sir.thomascox@yahoo.co.uk)

Regards,
Mr. Thomas Cox

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