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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: "Bank of England. BOE." <bob@netvigator.com>
Reply-To: andrewscott733@yahoo.es
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:59:35 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: Dear Valued Beneficiary Customer,

October 29, 2012

Dear Valued Beneficiary Customer,

I am Andrew Scott (Chair) Bank of England, Branch Director London. I am a citizen of United Kingdom. I am contacting you in respect of your funds in the bank. We received a Payment Credit Instruction to release your compensation, Contractors, Inheritance fund and Lottery winners from our bank here in London, England to your bank account, which amount to US$3.4 Million, but financial task force for money laundry arrested him. But after going through investigation we find out that you are the rightful beneficiary to the fund in our system.

I am contacting you on how you want us to send this money to you because delay in receiving this money is not good and it will course us to return the fund to Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as unclaimed fund, so the Authority of have instruct me to transfer all fund in our system to there rightful beneficiary before the end of next month. So what the Authority need from you now is to send you this money.

You are advice to reconfirm the below information as to enable the wire transfer...

Full Name:
Address:
Telephone:
Mobile:
Bank Name:
Address:
Account No:
Routing No:
Swift Code:
Account Name:

We need a short note from your side as the rightful beneficiary to the fund for Her Majesty's of Finance to stamp your transfer slip to confirm that Bank of England is transferring the money to the rightful owner.

As soon as we receive the above details, we shall effect your payment immediately will you follow our directives, your funds will reflect in your account within three working days from the date we receive it, Do not respond to any correspondence again but only to this Bank, if you're the real beneficiary.

Scan your ID identity for proper identification in order not to transfer your fund to wrong information.

Yours in Service,

Andrew Scott (Chair)
Bank of England

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