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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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Fraud email example:

From: "MR. JAMES CLAYTON" <jamesclayton@blumail.org>
Reply-To: jamesclayton@kimo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:55:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Good Day




Schroder & Co. Bank AG.
Postfach 1820
8021 Zurich,
Switzerland
SWIFT: BJHSCHZZ

Good Day,

Schroder & Co. Bank AG. is the Swiss offshore bank of the Schroder Plc UK,
established in 1804 and now one of the biggest publicly quoted companies
in UK. The Swiss office of Schroder Plc UK, Known as Schroder & Co. Bank
AG, was established in 1967 and is now one of the leading Global Assets
Management banks in Europe. I am an investment consultant working with
Schroder & Co. Bank AG. Zurich, Switzerland.

I will be happy to do a nice deal with you from within this bank, if you
have a corporate or personal Bank account and if you are capable of
keeping matters absolutely confidential. I need strong assurances that you
can and that you will not let me down, sink, or double-cross me, if I
transfer some good money into your bank account anywhere on earth.

During one of our periodic auditing in Schroder & Co. Bank AG, I
discovered some dormant accounts within the bank with various amounts of
Dormant Assets. A Dormant Asset is defined as any asset deposited with a
bank (i.e. an account, a security, or Financial instrument, or cash, etc)
for which there has been no contact with the customer or any activity in
such account for the last ten years, or more. Sometimes a person will open
a bank account, deposit money, and then disappear into the thin air for
whatever reasons. Banks are not always able to find out what has become of
such silent customers. Usually such customers reside abroad and due to
bank secrecy and non-disclosure agreements/policies, the bank cannot
publish notices in the international press/media, to locate such
depositors.

There were incidences in the past, where customers pass away by reason of
death and their heirs could neither prove their heir-ship, nor come
forward to claim the estates left behind by such deceased customers. This
was a frequent occurrence during the first and Second World War periods,
and for which reason, survivors of the war victims lost all the
monies/assets their benefactors had in Swiss banks to this day. Now the
Swiss banking industry has set up a simple, customer-friendly, rapid
resolution procedure, operating to the customers' advantage, as a way of
dealing with such situations. And that is what we are going to capitalize
on, in this proposed transaction.

At this point, I am constrained not to give you any more details about
this transaction until your response and expression of interest are
received by me, vide return e-mail. Therefore, if you know that you are
capable of handling large, or small amounts of money on trust, can keep
secret and ready to take 45% of any amount I transfer to your account from
the said dormant assets accounts as your commission and release the 55%
remainder to me, then get back to me immediately. The amount in question
here is $13,450,000 (Thirteen point four-five Million Dollars).

I want to assure you that this business is risk-free and it doesn't matter
whether your Preferred/intended receiving bank a/c has one dollar only in
it, or is empty, provided that the account is active and capable of
receive incoming funds.

I am looking forward to discussing this opportunity further with you in
detail, after you must have replied this mail to: -
jamesclayton@blumail.org expressing your firm interest in the offer. Thank
you for your time and attention.

Regards,

Mr. James Clayton






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