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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: "Walker" <walkudmk@bankers.co.uk>
Reply-To: dmk450dmk@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 05:45:21 -0500
Subject: Trust and confidential offer !!!




Dear friend,

I am Matthew Walker and currently an accounts analyst for the Citibank in
St Paul's Churchyard London.
This branch of the bank is due for closure shortly (Mid-June in fact) this
has left me with a problem and I need help to resolve it.

One of my duties is to compile and send in the financial reports to the
head office at the end of each fiscal year, stating the branches assets,
current accounts status and turn over for the preceding year.
During the course of May's end of the year and actually the final report
from this branch, I discovered an error in a stocks fund account that had
been overlooked and carried over for several years. Obviously the former
accounts manager had not discovered this and the head office are not aware
of it and probably never will be. The unaccounted for amount is just over
£3,750,000 (Three Million, seven hundred and fifty thousand British Pounds
sterling)
Most of these accounts have hundreds of millions of pounds in them, and
this is traded and moved between endless banks, accounts, stocks and
shares etc and in reality are just big numbers on a screen.

Normally I would have reported this error but to be quite frank I had only
recently moved here and now they are closing the branch and have not even
been offered a relocation package, or even had it verified that I still
have a job!
I decided to place this fund in bogus Suspended account I created that
currently has no named beneficiary and is not linked to any current
trading account, individual or company. This means that this account
remains pretty much invisible until claimed and would remain as such but
for the upcoming branch closure when all the accounts will be transferred
and any suspended accounts will more than likely be investigated and
traced.
Now this leaves me with a problem and this is where you come in. As an
employee of the bank I cannot be linked to this money, or remove it to any
account which would be directly connected to me as this would be classed
as insider trading which is and you are probably aware is highly illegal
and quite easily traced. So I need a third party to claim the funds and
then we can share accordingly 50% for you and 50% for me. There is
practically no risk involved, as the money has already been "dissolved" as
far as the bank is concerned it's legitimate and legal, all I need from
you is a claim as the original depositor so that we can approve you as the
beneficiary and release the funds.

If you are interested, I will give you more details and process the legal
documents in your favour to back up the claim.
All I need at this point is confirmation of your full name, address, age,
occupation and a direct telephone number where you can be reached.
As soon as I receive your details, I will proceed with a backdated deposit
slip in your name and upload your data as old customer of the bank while
we process the documents and secure payment approval.
I only hope we can assist each other. But If you don't want this business
offer kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I await your response via my secured email address: dmk450dmk@yahoo.co.jp

Best Regards,
Mr. Matthew Walker

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