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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: "Thomas Donnelly" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < tomas.75donnelly@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:56:40 -0700
Subject: Seeking For Your Kind Consent

Hello Dear

I am pleased to get across to you for a very confidential and profitable business proposal.I got your contact while searching for a reliable person who would assist me to execute this life time business opportunity in my department. I deemed it fit to contact you to seek your assistance in this profitable project which requires trust and confidentiality. As the Private Banking manager in my department, I discovered a dormant account of one of our late customer Nielson Hartwood F. whom I found out from my investigation that him and his entire family were involved in a fatal auto crash accident on March 2009. Before his death, he deal with automobiles and textiles importation. Till date, nobody have appear as the next of kin to his funds ?10.2M (GBP) with our bank although until his death, he never declare anyone as his rightful next of kin to his funds in our bank.

The most astonishing of my discovery was that, all records of this particular bank account with us bear no next of kin, meaning no member of Late Nielson Hartwood F. family knows about the deposit, therefore no member of his family will ever come forward to claim the fund. So to avoid the bank transferring the stipulate fund in a dormant as unclaimed funds to the emirates treasury account, the above stated funds must be claimed immediately by somebody who would stand as the Next of Kin of the late Mr.Nielson Hartwood F. as the beneficiary.

My main reason to contact you about this is because of the geographical nature of where you live unlike here in United Kingdom. For sometimes now, our bank management has been waiting to hear from any of his relative but none showed up so far so I hereby seek for your consent to present yourself as the rightful next of kin to the funds. The funds when received by you, will be shared in equally by both of us that is 45% each and 5% for any expenses made during the transaction and 5% goes to the motherless and needy homes (charities) in your country. As for the necessary documentation required, they are secured.

Note that I really carried out a methodological search and decided to disclose this matter to you with this strong feelings that you will help me to carry out the proposal successfully. I have all the whole powers to present you as the Next of kin if you can be able to work with me. Let hear from you as soon as you get this mail, so that we can further ahead for this transaction it will only take few banking days to get this money transfer into your account.


My Conditions:

1) The sum of Fifty Million Great British Pounds Sterling (?10.2M (GBP)) only will be transfer into your account after the processing of all relevant legal documents in your name as the bona fide beneficiary, the transfer will be made by Bank Telegraphic Transfer(T/T) or delivered to you via the company's Private Diplomatic Delivery System confirm-able in 5-7 working days.

2) This deal must be kept secret forever, during and after the execution of it and all correspondence will be strictly by email/telephone, for security purposes.

3) That there will not be any third party as most problems associated with transfers of fund release are caused by beneficiary's agents or representative. If you AGREE with my Conditions, I will forward to you a drafted application letter which you will fill and forward to the Head of International Funds Remittance Department of my company and I will also advise you on what to do immediately so that the transfer will commence immediately without delay as I will proceed to audit your name on the Payment Schedule instantly to meet the 5-7 working days mandate of the company.

If you are interested contact me with the below information.

(1) Your Full name.
(2) TelePhone, Fax and Mobile #.
(3) Contact Address.
(4) Profession, Age and Marital Status.
(5) Country of Residence and Origin.
(6) Occupation.

If you think you are capable and will be committed to making this deal a success, give me a call or send me an email as soon as possible to confirm your
interest.

My dear I want you to keep this mail very secret as I would not like any member of our staff to hear about it when I will release the neccessary information to you.

Awaiting your urgent reply via my confidential email address.

Regards,


Mr. Thomas Donnelly
Chief Auditor (CM Financial Management Ltd)
Contact me if you are ready to do this deal.

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