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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.Ron Teerlink" <ronteerlink@ok.net>
Reply-To: ronteerlink@mynet.com
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:52:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: YOUR RESPONSE IS IMPORTANT TO ME




Goodday to you,

My apologies that I had to send you this email without any prior
relationship between us; my name is Mr.Ron Teerlink,a member of the
Supervisory Board of the Royal Bank of Scotland N.V.

It is important that I let you know that an Ad hoc committee was recently
set up by the British Government to look into growing number of dormant
Bank accounts and personal Assets in UK Banks due to deaths of customers
and Deposited items, with a view to finding ways of locating relatives of
the dead customers and in the event that a relative is not found, the
British Government is already working with some NGO'S through the
unclaimed Assets Register, to confiscate and divert unclaimed depositor's
funds and assets to help the bad economy.

Read this article below:

http://www.unclaimedassets.co.uk/trace_forgotten_funds.htm

I have however contacted you with the hope of presenting you as the
beneficiary (next of kin) to a late client in one of the Branches of the
Royal Bank of Scotland in the United Kingdom whose Safe Deposit Box with
the Bank in the United Kingdom is worth Fourteen Million Seven Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars has remain unclaimed and has been in the
Bank storage, I figured out that since you share a common name with him, I
decided to Contact you with this privileged information regarding this
Deposit Box, this is as a result of the fact that the late client has
nobody left to claim the Safe Deposit Box with the cash in it.

If such a Safe Deposit Box is not claimed or renewed to commence another
tenure of 6years, a 6 months period of grace is granted to the Deposit Box
holder or his designated beneficiary, a probate order of Mandamus is then
issued to provide such a beneficiary whereby failure to do so at the end
of it's expiration the Safe Deposit Box will be quarantined and
confisticated by the British Government.

I bore in mind your personality and reputation of which the same apply to
me, on this light I then deemed it fit to assure you that the Safe Deposit
Box will be cleared in accordance with the firm's operational procedures
to ensure the transaction success without any breach of the law.

One thing is certain, with the relevant legal documents that I will get to
back you up, the Safe Deposit Box with the cash on it will be approved for
onward transfer to you.

If this is okay with you then get back to me so that I give you more details.

Let it be known to you that this $14,700,000.00 inside the Safe Deposit
Box will be shared in the ratio of 50% for me and 50% for you.

I will want you to get back to me as soon as possible if you are willing
to assist in getting these funds, or you can give me a call on my London
line below which I acquired mainly for this purpose as I am presently
based in the UK.

Regards,

Mr.Ron Teerlink
+4470457 74810

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