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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <lucysimtowe102@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:53:12 +0100
Subject: ACCOUNT IN GERMANY

RE-CHANGE OF ACCOUNT.


This letter is in regard to outstanding payment; I am LUCY DIU SIMTOWE the newly appointed Director United Nations
Legal Affairs, Security and Investigation, The Prime Minister Of United Kingdom (Mr. David Cameron) and his Decision
Making Body, The Executive Arms, has directed me to come down to United Kingdom to Investigate your fund and to make
sure that we approve all outstanding debts owed to Foreign beneficiaries by the Bank Of ENGLAND.


This decision was taken based on the abnormally and inability of the BANKS in United kingdom to Release your fund
into your bank account whereby it was discovered that some Directors in Bank being The Executive were diverting foreign
beneficiary’s payment to another account of their choice overseas. In view of this, during our investigation I found
out that an Account was submitted to divert your fund to a German account.


Below is the account submitted and I want you to confirm if you are aware of the new development because we are about
effecting payment to the account stated bellow today:


Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA
Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No.: 367840545
Code: 50050201


Finally, be informed that a payment instruction has been issued and forwarded to the Treasury Department in favor of
you for immediate release of your fund to the account above without any further prejudice. But there is no way we can
approve the fund to your account without you Confirming if you have changed your account for your fund to be transferred
to the Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA BANK ACCOUNT IN GERMANY; contact me immediately for further clarification to
know if you have giving instruction to transfer your fund to the above account today, you are in obligation to obtain, a
Duly Sworn Affidavit from USPIS Liaison Officer here in England which will back up the Origin of your Fund. You should
therefore contact our payee officer here to get the Sworn Affidavit for you.




Thanks for your co-operation.


Waiting for your urgent response.


Yours faithfully
LUCY DIU SIMTOWE
UN Office of Legal Affairs
Security and Investigation.

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