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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: "Chris Lucas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chlucas54@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:04:49 -0000
Subject: Our Ref: BARCBK/0154/OZ/UK/16

Our Ref: BARCBK/0154/OZ/UK/16 Date: 28 JANUARY, 2016

Your Ref:

YOUR ATTENTION REQUIRED;

Dear sirs,

CHANGE OF YOUR ACCOUNT CO-ORDINATE; TREAT AS VERY URGENT

Please I advise that you give this mail the utmost importance and urgency that it deserves if you are STILL ALIVE and the claimant of this contract fund. My name is Mr. Chris Lucas, the Head of Anti-Fraud Department of Barclays Bank United Kingdom. Presently your contract payment file was forwarded to this office for final verification before the institutionalization of the transfer of your FULL payment to your nominated bank account co-ordinate.

This might NOT interest you if you are following the payment procedure to date but my interest in contacting you now on this matter is borne on the fact that there is a new dimension to your payment process which carried your initial banking coordinates in the details.

Please confirm your knowledge of the above payment approvals details as is contained in your payment file, which now has been replaced by an affidavit as attested by your lawyer one Dr. Jack-Tom Ezebe, stating that you are dead but have appointed a new receiver to this fund payment before your demise. The affidavit carries in part and I quote; "that the late beneficiary of this contract payment whose names, company and banking details are contained in the pages three and five of the payment approval file before his death in a Dubai hospital due heavy injury sustained in a car crash, did mandated me his attorney to appoint a sister company in Accra - Ghana as the new receiver of his due contract fund for the purpose of re-investment within the Ghana robust economy. The new receiver/company's details are:

COMPANY DETAILS:
F & J Arpino Ltd
P.o.box AN19007,Accra-North,Ghana
Accra, Ghana

BANK DETAILS:
BANK OF BARODA (GHANA) LIMITED
MELCOM BUILDING ANNEX KWAME NKRUMAH AVENUE, ADABRAKA
City: ACCRA
Country: GHANA
SWIFT: BARB GH AC 850
ACCOUNT NAME: F & J ARPINO LTD
ACCOUNT NUMBERS: 00712660979

Sirs, it will please us if you would carry out this new changes as directed by my deceased client before his death to replace the former payment details as contained in the fund payment approvals with your good office" (END OF QUOTE)

Sir, I am compelled to write you this mail out of instinct just in case this whole thing is NOT from you before you suffer a terrible orchestrated loss. You are therefore as a matter of great importance required to respond to this notice if this new development is NOT from you otherwise we will be compelled to carry out the final transfer orders as is contained in the affidavit.

BE INFORMED THAT THIS MATTER IS VERY CRITICAL TO THE FINAL COMPLETION OF YOUR FUND TRANSFER AND YOU ARE THEREFORE ADVISED NOT TO FORWARD OR COPY THIS MAIL TO ANYBODY OF ANY KIND FOR SECURITY REASONS IN CASE YOU ARE NOT DEAD SINCE SUCH PERSON(S) MIGHT BE WORKING AGAINST YOU!!!.

Thank you sir for your understanding.

Chris Lucas.
ANTI-FRAUD/TELEX DEPARTMENT
BARCLAYS BANK - UK
+44 708 769 9467

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