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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: John Griffith-Jones <johngriffithjones01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: johngriffithjones1@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:17:53 -0800
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF THE CHAIRMAN: FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY (FCA).

FROM THE DESK OF THE CHAIRMAN
FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY (FCA).
25 THE NORTH COLONNADE, CANARY WHARF, LONDON E14 5HS
(Company No. 01920623)



We wish to urgently reconfirm from you if actually you know one Mrs.
Cynthia Edward who claims to be your business associate/partner.

Kindly reconfirm this application put in by Mrs. Cynthia Edward - she
submitted the under listed bank account information supposedly sent by
you to receive the funds on your behalf.

The bank information she applied with are stated thus:
Account Name: Cynthia Edward
Bank name: Citi Bank NA
Bank address: #1230 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Account Number: 013439887655
Routing Number: 2771722
Swift Code: CITIUS30

The said Mrs. Cynthia Edward is claiming to this office that you are
dead and have Instructed that all relevant documentation/Information
regarding your Payment/Transfer, be changed to her as the beneficiary
of the payment short-listed among the foreign beneficiaries entitled
to receive their payment.

Prior to the Government instructions/mandated to offset all
outstanding payments to the various legal foreign beneficiaries around
the world and your payment file was affected. We need to confirm from
you if it's really true that you are dead as made mention by your
Associate.

You should note that, if we do not hear from you, we automatically
assume that you are actually dead and the information passed to us by
Mrs. Cynthia Edward is correct. Hence, you are hereby requested to
reply this Email immediately for confirmation, before we proceed with
this payment and for us to know the true position of things with you
so that we won't make any mistakes/errors in remitting your
out-standing payment to a wrong person’s/account.

Lastly, you are advice to reply back this email and reconfirm the
details of this message if truly you're alive.

(1) Full Name:
(2) Address:
(3) Nationality:
(4) Age:
(5) Gender:
(6) Occupation:
(7) Direct phone #:
(8) Direct Fax #:
(9) Desired contact e-mail:
(10) Alternative e-mail:

Or if you are no longer interested to claim your funds then we advise
you to send us a letter stating clearly that you are no longer
interested to claim the funds and that the UK Government should cancel
your payment and send the funds to the Government Treasury.

The Letter should be addressed to the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA) United Kingdom in official English letter writing signed by you
and also counter signed, stamped and sealed by your Lawyer, so that
your payment file will be closed once and for all, in line with the
United Kingdom Financial Regulatory Transaction laws.

Your quick response will help us a lot.

Thank you,

John Griffith-Jones.
Chairman: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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