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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, HART GREEN" <officecot51@cantv.net>
Reply-To: aw203040@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 01:50:15 +0600
Subject: THANKS FROM MR, HART GREEN




Greetings to you,

My name is Mr. HART GREEN, the present branch Manager of a bank here in
London. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I
can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I
said, I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, but your assistance
is required as a foreigner.

I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but
last December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in
Harlsden, North West London who passed on, so that was how I became
the present Manager and discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I
discovered an account with total sum of $12,500,000 million that has not
been
operated on for the past 4 years. From my investigation, I found
out that this account belongs to one Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American
great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on
January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more
news about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my
investigation;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my
bank,and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning
it,the account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close
monitoring of the account since then and nobody has come forward to ask
about the
money as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no one
is aware of the account. I cannot directly take out this money without
the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an
assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my
bank
branch, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to
any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the
correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.

I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to
the account, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to
you.

There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach
of law.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us
to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be
satisfied.

Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can
work together, so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance
and may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait
your urgent response.

Please provide me the following: as we have 5 business days to run
it through. This is very very URGENT PLEASE.

1. Full Name
2. Your Private mobile telephone Number or cell phone
3. Your Contact Address.
4. Age and Occupation
5. A copy of your international passport

Regards,

MR, HART GREEN
NB; PLEASE GET BACK TO ME THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS;
aw203040@gmail.com



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