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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: George Culmer <Grg_culmer@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:49:29 +0300
Subject: Urgent Responds Needed



--
Hello,


How are you? My name is Dr.George Culmer, I am one of the Executive
Directors and Chief Financial Officer of Lloyds Banking Group PLC
London.
I decided to seek a top secret and co-operation with you in the
execution of a transactions deal described here-under for our benefit.

During the annual bank audits, I discovered an abandoned fund, sum total
of £ 5,700.000.00, GBP (five Million seven Hundred Thousand British
Pounds Sterling) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Late: William Cameron (Willie) McCool who is a commander
in,USN NASA astronaut an American from San Diego, California, who lost
his life with the entire crew on February 1,2003 over the southern
United States Space Shuttle Columbia.

see the link here
forconfirmations:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._McCool

I discovered that he did not specify any next of kin/will beneficiary to
his account after going through his file in our bank. I deliberately
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin / will beneficiary
to the deceased so that the sum valued at £ 5,700.000.00, Million
British Pounds Sterling will be transferred to you, which will be shared
between both of us in these percentage ratio: 55% for me and 45% to you
respectively.

I need your sincere co-operation; trust and utmost
confidentiality to enable us conduct this transaction
successfully. I assure and promise you that this transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law both in your country and here in London as the fund is
transferred to your nominated bank account.

Upon consideration and acceptance of this offer, kindly send the
following information immediately to my email contract for more
confidentiality: Grg_culmer@outlook.com


1. Your name:
2. Your contact address:
3. Your mobile number:
4. Your email:


To enable me upload your information in our bank database to reflect in
the
bank network system that you are the named next of kin/will beneficiary
of
this account, then I will guide you on communication with the bank for
onward transfer of this fund to you.

NOTE: We have just few banking days to execute this transaction.


thanks,

Dr. George Culmer.
+44703 190 7746

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