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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: "Mr.Stephen Hester" <pvthester010@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: h_pvt.rbsbank1@ymail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:45:12 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Proposal.




From Mr. Stephen Hester.

P O Box 10720

Victoria Street

London WC2R 1AP

www.rbs.co.uk



I am Mr. Stephen Hester, the Group Chief Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland. I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of $68,000,000.00 [SIXTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS] during our Bank's Annual Year Account Auditing. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account till date. I mean NO BODY! Moreover, this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it. Definitely, our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS will confiscate this fund if it remains dormant for a period of [7] year without no claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund.



HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED: As the Group Chief Executive of our bank, all our client account details and file are in my possession and that makes it easy for me to include your name as the beneficiary of the fund in all necessary documents involving the money we wish to transfer out from our bank. the most importantly, ACT AS THE ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY OF THE FUNDS AND RECEIVE THE FUNDS INTO A BUSINESS/PRIVATE BANK ACCOUNT.



Should you be interested to work with me in this project, I can make you his legal beneficiary of the money he deposited in our bank which will enable our bank to release the fund to you. Once the money is released to you, I will immediately come down with my family to meet you for sharing. Our sharing ratio will be 40% for you and 60% for me. Kindly view my identification link below and also contact me through my private email: {hesterm32@yahoo.com}



http://www.rbs.com/about-rbs/g1/our-board.ashx



Kindly get back to me only if you are interested to work with me for more information and Guideline.

I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.



Best Regards

Mr. Stephen Hester

Group Chief Executive

Royal Bank of Scotland.

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