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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Michael Johnson" <dr.michaeljohnson51@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Dr. Michael Johnson" <dr.m_johnson_lloyds80@mail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:07:55 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From Dr. Michael Johnson (Compliment of the day)


DR. MICHAEL JOHNSON
ASSISTANCE MANAGER
LLOYDS BANK LONDON ENGLAND
BRANCH: 2 LONGMOOR LANE, AINTREE, LIVERPOOL
E-MAIL: dr.m_johnson_lloydsoffice1@yahoo.co.uk


Dear Friend,

How are you today? I hope fine, I am Dr. Michael Johnson from Harlesden, North West London, here in England. I work for Lloyds Bank London. I am writing you from my office, which will be of a great immense benefit for both of us. In my department, being the assistant manager (Greater London region), I discovered an abandoned sum of £16.5 Million Pound (Sixteen Million Five hundred Thousand Pound and sterling) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Ron Bramlage, an American who lives in Kansas States that was a victim of a helicopter crash last year Jun 8, 2012, in Florida swamp killing him and family members. Ron was 45-years-old. Also in the chopper at the time of the crash was his wife Rebecca, 43, and the couple's children – Brandon, 15; Boston, 13; Beau, 11; and 8-year-old Roxanne – were killed. The pilot was also dead.

I am seeking your partnership and cooperation to carry out this transaction together because the Lloyds Bank is closes some of its branches and the branch where this fund is been lodged is among those to be closed, so i want us to get this fund out before its closure.  I have contacted you because i believe you will not run away with my own share of this fund when it arrives your account, and the sharing ratio will be 60% for me and 40% for your cooperation. For you to verify the Lloyds bank closing branches visit this site:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lloyds-bank-more-200-branches-close-181000783--finance.html#4KVKdTh

Due to the sensitivity of the transaction and the confidentiality herein, now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that, I personally have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for a long time now. My dear friend, I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin /Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at £16.5 Million Pounds can be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to you, I have secured all necessary legal documents that we can used to back up this claim we are making. All I need is to fill in Your names to the documents and legalized it in the court and the Lloyds Bank here to prove You as the legitimate beneficiary, All I need now is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this Transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law here in London and in your country.

Please, kindly provide me the following: as we have 7 days to run it through, this is very, very URGENT PLEASE.

1. Full Name:......................
2. Your Telephone Number:.................
3. Your Contact Address:..................
4. Age/Gender:...................
5. Core job/Occupation:..............

Kindly reply to my email here: dr.m_johnson_lloydsoffice1@yahoo.co.uk

I have contacted you, believing that you will not run away with my own share of this fund when it arrives your account, Hope i can trust you on this? as you know this transaction involve huge amount of money. Please, kindly indicate your interest by providing me with your details as above, so i can furnish you with more information on how the Bank are going to get this fund transferred to you within 5 banking days. Endeavour to reply, rather than keeping me waiting.

Best Regards,
Dr. Michael Johnson




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