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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: good box <boxgood867@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:57:14 -1200
Subject: from William Barton


Dear Friend,
My name is William Barton, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the
United Kingdom. I am contacting You for a business transfer, of a huge sum
of money

from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
everything

documents that will bring about the success of this transaction would be
provided, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact
you due

to the urgency of this transaction.

The deceased person who died Neal Walker died in an air crash along with
his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers

on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid
Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below
which was

published by BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and
his wife

(May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated

in our banking guidelines.Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission
to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations
will be

carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds £6,100 000 00 GBP
(Six million, one hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which
will be

released in your favor as the next of kin.

Because after Twenty Four years the money will be called back to the bank
bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors
of the

bank. so it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be
used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the
bank

directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.It
may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of

mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual Business endeavor by
furnishing

me with the following information if you are interested.

1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone and your occupation.

For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be
compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final conclusion of this
project for

your assistance, the balance 65% shall be for me ,because I intend to
retire after the conclusion of this transaction . If this proposal is
acceptable by

you, please endeavor to contact me immediately to my private email addres {
williabarton962@hotmail.com } Do not take undue advantage of the trust I
have

bestowed in you,
I await your urgent mail.

Best Regards,
William Barton

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