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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: "Unclaimed Asset MANAGEMENT"<info@smartpulswilmar.nl>
Reply-To: unclaimed.asset.management@toke.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:33:39 +0100
Subject: Unclaimed Asset NOTICE!!!

>From the Office of: The Director,
Dormant Accounts Unit,
British Bankers' Association
Pinner's Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1EX

Dear Claimant,
RE: Dormant Account Claim XZA10978GHN451DAC2016

We specialize in providing multi-disciplinary and independent regulatory advisory, dispute advisory, investigative and forensic accounting services to the global financial and legal community. Our highly-experienced and diverse teams support clients facing high stakes regulatory matters, litigation, arbitration and financial crime investigations.

A Financial Institution has become embroiled in another scandal after admitting that it was wrong to deny sitting on almost quarter of a billion pounds of customer money. The troubled lender said it had now agreed to return cash to as many as 4,500 customers after apologizing to them for the mistake. The Financial Times reports there are a "sea of unclaimed assets sloshing around the financial system" very conservatively estimated to be worth £77 billion! Assets are considered dormant when contact with the owner is lost - typically due to death, name change after marriage or divorce, an unreported change of address or expired postal forwarding order, and incomplete or illegible records. It's important to note millions of family members remain unaware they're entitled to collect unclaimed assets owed deceased relatives, who passed on without leaving updated financial records for their heirs.

The Dormant Account Unit of the British Bankers Association wishes to inform you that we have concluded our verification exercise and our finding indicates that your deceased relative actually had an account that became dormant for over eight years with the Management of a Financial Institution here in the United Kingdom. This account had supposedly become dormant but our consultants mandated to investigate and find the last living relatives to this depositor has come up with a finding which of course has led us to inform you that your relative (deceased) had a deposit we would encourage you to claim. This is in line with our obligations to deceased bank depositors not to have them loose deposit even when we could not find a next of kin.

You are advised to contact immediately:
THOMAS, OLIVER, KYLE & EDWARD - TOKE LTD
FORSYTH HOUSE
CROMAC SQUARE
BELFAST - BT2 8LA
unclaimed.asset.management@toke.com

They will give you a breakdown of this information as we will not encourage that you respond to this office with regards to this matter. Due to the large number of cases we process, we have deemed it fit that we assign intermediary, independent and accredited attorneys to deal with these matters on our behalf, so, it is unfortunate that we cannot guarantee a personal response to every enquiry. A copy of this letter has been sent to your Accredited Independent Financial Attorney. We will only recognize his opinions and responses with regards to this matter and on the condition that he has all these requirements ready to defend and complete the claim.

Philip Graham.
For: The Director, Dormant Accounts Unit.
British Bankers Association (BBA)
Pinner's Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1EX

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