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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: Henry <edward_0henry@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: edward_0henry@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:52:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Enquiry And Response Needed!




Enquiry And Response Needed!


Attention Please,

I am contacting you as an account officer in a Bank here in London United Kingdom, I have contacted you in the past but did not hear from you, as someone is now contacting the bank, saying you delegated him to come for this money on your behalf, so, I decided to write you back to know, if you did delegate anyone to come for the claim of this fund in my bank? As I never read from you when I did contact you in the past .

Nature of Claim:

There is an account of a client and confidant that has been dormant here in our bank, and upon my investigation, I came to realize that the account holder is dead, and even the deposit he has in a Swiss bank has been unserviceable for a longer time, and has now been confiscated, as ruled by Claims Resolution Tribunal in Switzerland

(http://www.crt-ii.org/2001_list/publication_list1_A.phtm).



The name of my late client and confidant is Apostolopoulo Victor, originally from Greece but resided in Bacos, Egypt for over twenty years, he was a contractor and this fund is as a result of some contracts he did in Africa. My bank happens to be the corresponding bank of the paying bank from Africa where most of the contracts were done. I do not wish the one here in London,to be confiscated. I decided to contact you, so that I can add your name as the beneficiary in the deposit file, so that this money can be paid to you, after which we shall share it accordingly, as I acted as his account officer and confidant when the deposit was made. All efforts to trace any of his relatives alive has proved abortive, as he was single, and in no distant time, this fund will be declared unserviceable, then confiscated and turned into bank treasury, but I want us to claim it and have 10% of it donated to any charitable organization as you may suggest. This will be
done legally, as I will give you the contact information of an accredited attorney to our bank who will apply and procure a deed of transfer of assignment on your behalf and have this money paid to you through one of the cost effective and safest means of getting money without the interference of any international community financial watch-dog.

The amount in this dormant account is Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (£9,500,000.00), as I will let you have access and view the account information/statement of the account online, as soon as you state your readiness to partner with me in this regard, knowing very well that I am just a civil servant that will need your full cooperation, for the success of this business.

We are going to negotiate on terms and conditions of this claim, so I will be pleased if you can immediately write me back, and make sure you give this mail an urgent attention it deserves, and please, do not fail to do away with this mail if you are not interested in this, and do let me know. As some of the contract documents can be made available to you if the need be to ascertain the genuine nature of this money.

This is never going to be one of those baseless emails you get on the internet, as this is verifiable .


Your Prompt response will be highly appreciated.

Yours Faithfully,
Edward Henry

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