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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: SharonBright
Reply-To: <msritabright@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 14:56:54 -0800
Subject: I am waiting for your reply soonest

Hello Sir.

I am Miss Sharon R. Bright, working NatWest bank Plc

London. I am personally contacting you base on the matter

on ground. I am an account officer to one our customers,

Mr. George who bears the same last name with you. He is a

national of your Country who used to work with Oil Company

in London.

On the 2nd of August 2003, Mr. George and his wife with

their three children were involved in a car accident along

Manchester Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle

unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries to your Embassy

to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has

also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to

trace his relatives over the internet to locate any member

of his family, hence I contacted you.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money

left behind by our late customer before it got confiscated

or declared unserviceable by our bank where these huge

deposits were lodged.

Particularly, he maintains the deposit valued at 15

million pounds with our bank. The board of directors has

issued me the LAST notice as the deceased's account

officer to provide the next-of-kin or have the account

confiscated by middle of January 2016.

Also it will interest you to know the deposited fund has

attracted an interest of 1 million pounds make the total

amount of 16,000,000 (Sixteen Million Great British Pounds

Sterling).

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives

for over nine (9) months now, I seek your consent to

present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you

have the same last name with him. so that the proceeds of

this account valued at 16 million pounds will be paid to

you as the Next of Kin/extended relative.

I will personally be happy if you can respond to this

immediately so that you can receive these fund from the

bank in this final quarter payment of the Year.

I have some of the important documents that can be used to

back up the claim like deposit certificate which Mr.

George kept with me as his account officer.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see

this transaction through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate

arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the

law. I will get you a better attorney who will handle the

legal aspect of the transaction.

Please get in touch with me immediately you acknowledge

the good receipt of this message. Do not forget to send me

your direct telephone number, so that I can call you for

an extensive discussion on this deal.

Anticipating your prompt response.

Yours Sincerely,
Miss Sharon R. Bright.
Working with NatWest Bank Plc.
Private number: +44 8455280347.

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