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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. Jack Ruben" <morisjohn398@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: jack.ruben@mail.ru
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 18:08:17 +0900
Subject: Very Urgent Attention,

From: Mr. Jack Ruben
International Relations Manager
Standard Chartered Bank Plc
United Kingdom


Very Urgent Attention,

Please permit me to introduce myself to you; I'm Mr. Jack Ruben, the
International Relations Manager with Standard Chartered Bank Plc here in
United Kingdom, I got your email address on the Internet. I hope you read
this message carefully and reply me immediately. Although we have not met
before, but I suggest that this transaction will bring us together. We
have a customer, a foreigner based here in London, his Name is Mr.
Hamilton who based here with his wife and two kids from Atlanta Georgia
United State of America, he has been our customer with our bank for the
past 4yrs, sometime August 2010, Mr. Hamilton and family were on his way
to their house in East London, unfortunately he ran into a Trailer load of
Groundnut Oil, and all of them died.

The Board Of Directors and Management of Standard Chartered Bank Plc, has
mandated me to look for Mr. Hamilton relation/relatives or his next of Kin
to come and claim Mr. Hamilton’s Fund, but all the effort could not yield
and positive result, I have contacted his Embassy and after 3days, his
Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton, has no relation and no next of kin,
their Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton used his first son as his next
of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton died with all his
family members

The reason why I contacted you is thus, Mr. Hamilton is dead, and his only
son whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died with him.
As at this moment, nobody or person's is coming to claim this money from
our bank. The board of directors and management of our bank has told me
that if nobody or person's apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton Fund, the
bank will return Mr. Hamilton's Fund into our Federal Reserve Account of
British Government.

In light of the above I want you to stand/apply as the Relation/relative
of Late Mr. Hamilton. I want you to act as the Hamilton's relation, so
that you will inherit Mr. Hamilton Creek Money which he deposited with our
bank, it might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a Domiciliary
Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$14.2Million
{Fourteen Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars}, this money is still in
his account as unclaimed money.

This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100% risk free, I'm
the Manager for International Relations with Standard Chartered Bank Plc,
where this money was deposited and the Management and Board of Directors
of the Bank are waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of
Kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, of which I told them that I am still
searching for the next of kin to the deceased.

Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will present you
to the bank as the only next of kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, hence to
claim the funds. If this deal suits your interest then contact me so that
we can proceed for the transferring of the late Mr. Hamilton outstanding
funds into your bank account.

Feel free to ask any questions, we will share the funds when transferred
into your bank account equal

Thanks and have a nice day.

Friendly Regards
Mr. Jack Ruben
International Relations Manager
Standard Chartered Bank Plc
United Kingdom

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