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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: "L-tbs" <customer.service@Lloyds-bnk.com>
Reply-To: eadams137@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 19:11:38 -0700
Subject: Re: This is my current e-mail address


Lloyds Banking Group Archives
4th floor, 33 Old Broad Street
London,
EC2N 1HZ
Good day,
I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to=
treat it serious. I am Mrs. Edith Adams, the Finance Director of Lloyds Ba=
nking Group London.
I will be happy to execute this deal with you if you have a corporate or p=
ersonal Bank Account and if you are capable of handling issues as a TOP SE=
CRET. I therefore need a strong Assurance that you will never let me down, =
when I transfer this money to your account. Thus during one of our periodic=
auditing I discovered a dormant account with holding balance of US$ 32,000=
.000.00 { Thirty Two million US Dollars only}, The owner of this dormant ac=
count died and since his death, nobody has operated in his account because =
the account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it.
According to our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS, this dormant fund will be confisc=
ated by law if it remains dormant for a period of [10] Ten years without an=
y claim. Banks are not always able to find out what has become of these si=
lent customers, or to know whether they should follow up on requests from p=
eople who claim to be heirs to the accounts. The main problem is that the =

customer resides abroad and, due to bank secrecy and code of conduct, the =
bank cannot publish notices in the international press to locatethe deposit=
aries.
It has happened in the past, however, such customers pass
away and their heirs can neither prove the death, nor their heir ship. Thi=
s was a frequent occurrence during the wartime periods, also now that have =
many reports of environmental hazards with many unknown casualties and the =
banks have now set up a simple, rapid resolution procedure operating to the=
ir customers' advantage.
I therefore solicit for your sincere cooperation in transferring this dorm=
ant fund to your foreign account as the foreign beneficiary of the fund to =
avoid confiscating it by our bank, this transaction will be done in a legit=
imate procedure within 6 banking days to avoid any breach of the law.
I am constrained to issue more details about this business transaction unt=
il your response is received. If you know that you will be capable to handl=
e large or small amount on trust and can to keep all matters secret and rea=
dy to take 45% of any amount I transfer to your account from the dormant ac=
count and I will take 55%, send your account information's by return mail. =
Tell me more about yourself, while I look forward to receive the above info=
rmation.
I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send a=
n empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable =
to receive incoming funds.
PRIVATE EMAIL: eadams137@hotmail.com
Anticipating for your positive response for more details.
Yours truly,
Mrs Edith Adams
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com
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