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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 RICHARD WILLIAM" <info@admin.net>
Reply-To: richwilliams12@qq.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:12:38 -0500
Subject: Barclay's Bank Transfer




Barclay's Bank Plc.
Scotland Branch,
21 Cow gate Kirkintilloche,
Glasgow, Scotland G66 1HW
DATE: 14/07/2012
Email : richwilliams12@qq.com



Dear Friend


After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally
because I do not have anything against you, but your U.O.B, United
Overseas Bank, Nigerian partners, Bank OF AMERICA and EUROPE bank. I am
the Head of Transfer Department Barclays Bank Scotland i am in charge of
wire transfer/telex department of the Barclays Bank Scotland, Some time in
the days past your United Overseas Bank and EUROPE paying bank and
clearing house London partners approached me through a friend of mine who
works with one of the ministries here and requested that i assist them
conclude a money transfer deal, they told me to help program a transfer to
you. According to them they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
amount of ($5.2million) United States dollars; the money has been floating
in the Barclays Bank suspense account since then. We agreed that once I do
this, they would give me $100,000.00 and when I release the fund to your
account. When they saw that i have programmed it and your name has been
approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the
agreed amount $100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to
threats. I immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is
only known to me because of my position and released other contractor’s
fund and inheritance payments without yours. They became angry when they
saw that their threat did not work, they started bribing other officials
to get another approval to transfer the money to you without success. i
want you to know that I am 100% responsible for the delay and obstructions
because of their breach of trust.

If you doubt what i have just told you then consider what has transpired
through out your claim process, they continue to ask you to pay money and
at the end no result and they still tell you to pay another fee without
any result yet. They are simply wicked. Now if you want us to work
together, these are my conditions. 1: I will have 20% of the money because
it is only the two of us left for now. No. 2: You will assist my son to
open an account in your country where I will pay in my own share. No.3: It
will be useless and mere waste of time and money if you continue with any
other person, so we will conclude this transaction with utmost secrecy
with the above telephone and email only. No. 4: You will provide me with
your private telephone, mobile and a private email to facilitate easy
communication between you and i only. If these conditions are acceptable
to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize, so that the
funds can be released to your account after due protocols has been
observed. But if you are not interested, I advice you to forget the fund
and stop wasting your time with your so called partners. For further
response send to my secured private email address: richwilliams12@qq.com


Best regards.
Mr. Williams Richard
Head, Transfer Department.
Barclays Bank, Scotland Branch.

IMPORTANT NOTE - Please, this information I am giving you is a great risk
on my side, so you have to keep this very confidential, as I am ready to
assist you get your fund released to your account. Your prompt response
to this mail will expedite the release of your over due
Payment. ©2012 Barclays Bank Plc International. All rights reserved

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