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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: "Barclay's Bank Plc" <Bnkplcantony4@aol.com>
Reply-To: BarclaysBankplc559@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:34:01 -0700
Subject: REF:- INSTRUCTION TO CREDIT YOUR BANK ACCOUNT


- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -

Barclays Bank Plc
1 Churchill Place, London
E14 5HP, United Kingdom
WWW.barclaysbank.co.uk
REF:- INSTRUCTION TO CREDIT YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
This is to notify you about the status of your fund presently on my desk.
After due vetting and evaluation of your Payment file which has layed
unclaimed for sometime now. We have an Immediate payment approval &amp; mandate
to disburse the funds to your nominated bank account.
>From our findings you have been going through hard times even paid a lot
of charges to see to the release of your Fund ($25 000, 000, 00) which to
no avail and endless. We advice that you stop further communications and
correspondences to people who claim to be Barclay's Bank Plc, officials and
deal with the right person from the bank.
As it is you don't have to pay much more charges to receive your
Inheritance fund as you have met the whole requirements,if you have any
representatives in other country that are telling you to still go ahead
with them,is at your own risk.
The only thing required from you is to obtain Non-Resident Clearance
Form/Receipt which we are not asking you to pay the fee to us here in
United Kingdom as the International Monetary Fund have instructed us, but if you
wish to obtain same here we can process it here and issue you the same,
for handling/processing of your Payment with other customers. We will help
you to see that you obtain the form so that our Bank will effect Immediate
transfer of your inheritance sum ($25 000, 000, 00) into your designated
bank account.
If you follow up our directives your fund will reflect in your account
within five Banking days from the day
you obtain this form. Do not go
through anybody again but through this Bank if you really want your fund.
Kindly complete the formality below for proof of assessment and
attestation of record.
1.Full Names:
2.Residential Address:
3.Fax Number:
4.Phone Number:
5.Occupation:
6.Sex:
7.Age:
8.Nationality:
9.Country:
10.Payment Method:
Please the above information shall be forwarded to this email:
(
antony.jenkins90@yahoo.com
) for immediate attention.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Antony Jenkins
Chief Financial Officer

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