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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. Sam Morse" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsammorse@sammorse.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:20:43 -0600
Subject: Very Urgent Attention

From: Mr. SAM MORSE
International Relations Manager
Standard Chartered Bank Plc
United Kingdom


Very Urgent Attention,

Please permit me to introduce myself to you; I'm Mr. Sam Morse, 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 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, 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$24.2Million {Twenty Four 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, 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, 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. Sam Morse
International Relations Manager
Standard Chartered Bank Plc
United Kingdom

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