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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: "MARK CARNEY" <info@mail.com>
Reply-To: <macarneyofficemail@rediffmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:39:20 -0700
Subject: Personally to you & Very Urgent

Threandneedle Street
London, EC2R 8AH,
United Kingdom

ATTENTION: BENEFICAIRY,

I'm delighted to inform you that i am the recent Bank of England

Governor, legally in charge of the entire local banks and all

the micro finance institutions here in London-UK.

We received an instruction from the office of UNITED NATIONS

FINANCIAL REGULATORY BOARD in conjuction with the Ministry Of Finance, few days from our correspondence to release your awarded payment fund valued sum of US$10,500,000.00 into your contract account as it has been approved by the British Government and United Nations to pay out all outstanding Inheritance/Contract Payment, lottery payments which was overdue by the the former prime minister and as well as beneficiaries whom were scammed by African 419 artists/perpetrators in one way or the other.


We were on the process to open a bank account in your name and

forward to you the account information so that you can access

your fund in your account by yourself, but we are surprise this

morning when we are about to open escrow account on your behalf,

we received another email from Ms Diane L. McAllister who claim

to be your representative with a Deed of Assignment/Agreement

telling us that she is your next of kin and representative and that you left an instruction to her for the claim of your(deposited fund US$10.5million) Here are the below account information she forwarded to us to transfer your fund into her account.

Below is the account information which she forwarded to us for

wire transfer:

Bank of America
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Account Holder: Diane L. Mcallister
Account No: 003767127294
Routing No: 063100277
65 Jabotinsky St #2 Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 54224

Please, do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this woman

is from you and has your authority to receive your fund. If this

lady is not your representative, you are requested to contact us

without any delay and send this information as soon as possible,

so that your fund value of $10.5Million united state dollars

will be released to you through bank telegraphic wire transfer.

Note quickly that out of ten selected beneficiaries approved for

payment, your name and contact appeared in our file as the

second beneficiary to receive US$10,500,000.00 which has been

gazetted to be released via direct bank to bank wire transfer to

your good self.

However, we shall proceed to issue all payment details to the

said woman if we do not hear from you within the next 5 banking

days from today. You are to re-confirm your full house/office

address, your working telephone number and a scanned copy of

your identification to enable us proceed with the process of

transferring your funds to your bank account as soon as you

indicate your readiness to seal up this payment ordeal.

Contact us through email: (boe.ccc.uk@gmail.com)

Sorry for the inconveniences or delay this must have caused you.

I REMAIN YOURS IN SERVICE,

MARK CARNEY
GOVERNOR, BANK OF ENGLAND
CC: SENATE PRESIDENT
CC: BOARD OF DIRECTORS [FPD]
CC: ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF ENGLAND
CC: BRITISH TREASURY MINISTRY

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