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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: "GTBANK" <INFO@gtbank.com>
Reply-To: infocentre@medicos.com
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:27:29 -0500
Subject: atternsion please

Dear Friend,
I wish to introduce myself to you, I am Loxley Dowkins a staff of GT BANK
here in London, United Kingdom, I am the head of the accounts department.
I am pleased to get across to you a very urgent and profitable business
proposal which I believe will profit both of us on completion. I
contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of
handling this business transaction, which is explained below.

The sum of (£ 17,500,000.00 Million Pounds) has been floating as unclaimed
since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get across the relatives of our
client who deposited the money have hit the stones. There is an immigrant
by name Mr. Andreas Schranner, property magnate who was based in the U.K,
who happens to be one of our very good clients. On the 25Th of July 2000,
Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, her
husband Christian, and their children Katharina and Maximilian all died in
the air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a
world cruise, see the link for more details of the plane crash
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. My position here at
my office requires me to investigate and I therefore made further
investigations and discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare
any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his
bank deposit paperwork in my bank. According to British Law, the money
will revert to the ownership of the British government if nobody applies
to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury
as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek your assistance to have you
stand as his next of kin so that the said fund (£ 17,500,000.00 Million
British Pounds), would be released in your name as the next of kin and
paid to your account. All documents and proof that will have you claim
this fund will be forwarded to you without any stress upon your response
to this email more soon, I want to inform you that I have unanimously
agreed to offer you (40%) of the total sum for the assistance and role you
are going to play in this transaction, I will take (50%) while the balance
(10%) left will be used to cover all expenses and tax as your government
may require. Please note that this fund will not be investigated or
recalled in the near future as all document to move this fund to your
account will be legally obtained.If you are interested do furnish me with
the following details so I can file you in as the next of kin here at the
bank. Please fill and submit these informations to my private email at:
infocentre@medicos.com

1. Name in full:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Age/Sex:
5. Occupation:
6. Direct Phone number:

Kind regards,
Loxley Dowkins


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