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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: Frank Williams <f_willy21@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: frank_1williams1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:34:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Payment Confirmation


Mr. Frank Williams
Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C,
147 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford , CT 06106 UK .
 
Hello,
 
Please do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable of keeping this highly confidential.

 

I am Mr. Frank Williams an investment consultant of one of our Prime Banks here in London .

 

During one of our periodic auditing i discovered some dormant accounts withholding the balances of 26,000,000 (Twenty Six Million British Pounds) has been dormant.

>From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a Foreigner from your country who died long time ago. Since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money as he has no family member who is aware of the existence of either the account nor the Funds. Information from the National Immigration also states that he was single on entrance into the country.
 
I have confidentially discussed this issue with a top official in the bank and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. It has happened in the past, however, that customers pass away and their heirs can neither prove the death, nor their heir ship. This was a frequent occurrence during the war periods, and the banks have now set up a simple, rapid resolution procedure operating to their customers advantage.

 

Dormant assets are defined as any assets deposited with a bank (i.e. an account, a custody account or a safety-deposit box) for which there has been no contact with the customer in the bank’s files for the last ten years or more. As at this moment, i am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received.
 
If you know that you are capable of handling large or small amount on trust and can keep secret and ready to take 40% of any amount i transfer to your account from the dormant accounts and i will take 60%, send your account information’s by return mail.

 

Tell me more about yourself, while i look forward to receive the above information.

Please you can write me to my most private email <frank_williams001@yahoo.com.vn>
 
I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable of receiving incoming funds. There are practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.


Send also your private mobile phone number where i can reach you.



 

Regards,

 

Mr. Frank Williams.
 
 


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