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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 Clancy <raimonds@ferrus.lv>
Reply-To: markclancy@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:51:57 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: From Mark Clancy,

>From Mark Clancy,
Phone: + 447978297162
E-mail: markclancy@hotmail.com

Please pay attention and understand my aim of e-mailing you today, my
name
is Mr Mark Clancy, Director Business Banking at NatWest Bank London. I
ask
you to consider this transaction with strict and utmost confidentiality.
Being a top executive at NATWEST Bank, I discovered a numbered account
with
a credit balance of £14,600,000 .00 (Fourteen Million, Six Hundred
Thousand British Pounds) that belongs to one of our foreign customers
(Luke
Bonono) Deceased, an American who was a victim of Hurricane Katrina in
August 2005. With my position at the bank, I have all access, secret
details and necessary contacts to claim these funds without any hitch. I
only need your HELP as a foreigner to assume the beneficiary, because my
position as a civil servant and a staff of the bank does not permit me
or
my relatives to make this claim. Therefore, I want you to stand as the
“Foreign Beneficiary", and I assure you of a perfect transfer strategy
that will be placed in your name legally, so that nobody will suspect
your
claims.

For your assistance to achieve this greatness, your entitlement is 40%
of
the total sum GBP£14,600,000 .00. Upon your consideration of this offer,
please provide me (Your full name, Contact address and your direct
telephone/fax number) to enable me re-profile the fund on your name as
the
beneficiary and guide your contact with NatWest bank for the release and
transfer of the fund to any bank account of your choice. Considering the
volume of discretion required for success of this project, i ask your
reply
to my private email: markclancy@hotmail.com,feel free to call me for
clear
explanations. Thanking you in anticipation of your immediate reply.

Yours truly,


>From Mark Clancy,
Director, Business Banking

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