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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: "Ashley John" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ashleyjohn1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:40:02 +0100
Subject: WE NEED YOUR HELP TO TRANSFER 10,8M$


41 South Gyle Crescent
Edinburg EH12 0BR London
Bank of Scotland UK.

Dear friend,

We wish these proposals will not embarrass you as we had no previous correspondence with you. I am Mr. Ashley John, from Bank of Scotland United Kingdom. Our objective is to establish with you a viable transaction.

In the course of our General Auditing and Account revision of the year 2016, we discovered that the Bank Accounts belonging to some Beneficiary have been changed on the basis that the owners is dead some time last year/ given out an authorization note of change of data.

After the investigations it was revealed that there are Foreigners who are collaborating with Retired Staffs to make these change illegally without the knowledge of the organization and one was traced to this name Mr. DANNY R PERRY, hence they have forwarded some documents of funeral service held that the beneficiary is dead so as to divert the fund. They have also forwarded this bank account below as the new account that will receive the Ten Million, Eight hundred Thousand United States Dollars(us$10.8M).

Bank Name...JP MORGAN CHASE BANK..
Bank Address....600 S.TYLER ST.STE100 AMARILLO,TX79101
Bank Phone Number..806-378-3100
Account Number.251870128
Routing number :111000614
Account Holder's Name:DANNY R PERRY

I and my sitting staff in the coffer request if interested you should please provide the following details, Telephone number, home or office address and your full name for us to start making internal arrangement to transfer the Ten Million, Eight hundred Thousand United States Dollars(us$10.8M) into your bank account for sharing, as soon as we have your support without any further delay, we will commence all the legal proceedings against Mr. Danny R Perry and his accomplices.

Remittance/Foreign Operation Manager
Bank of Scotland, London Uk

Yours faithfully,
b
Mr. Ashley John 41- South Gyle Crescent Edinburg EH12 0BR London England UK

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