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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. John Trundle" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <john11trundle@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:53:05 -0000
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY NEEDED.

FROM THE DESK OF INFORMATION OFFICER,
COMPENSATION PAYMENT DEPARTMENT,
EURO-CLEAR LONDON
33 CANNON STREET LONDON EC4M 5SB,
UNITED KINGDOM.
 
ATTENTION BENEFICIARY,
 
 
 
This is to bring to your notice that if the Euro- Clear London do not get your response within the next 7 working days, Euro Clear will without further
 
delay declare your fund 21.9 Million GBP as unclaimed fund and will repatriate the fund to government Coffers of the debted country.
 
 
 
I think we have given you enough respect and time to obtain the transfer permit.At this juncture,you are only left with one option and permit to only reply
 
if you are willing and capable to obtain the transfer permit to claim this fund, otherwise kindly put it into writing  that you are not willing and capable
 
of claiming this fund. Once we receive this,the transaction will be called off,as directed by the legal department of the Euro- Clear London, however if you
 
have lost any/all your legal papers of claim in your costudy to obtain the transfer permit please indicate so that a search will be done to recover all your
 
necessary informations. the .
 
 
Be informed that after seven days of this notice and you did not respond,we will have no other option than to seek for a court injunction which will enable
 
the Euro- Clear London to declare this fund unclaimed and consequently return it to the contributed country.
 
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Mr John Trundle,
Chief Executive Officer
Euroclear UK & Ireland.

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