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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: "Mr.melton Adams" <mrmeltonadams@bullworlduk.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BUSINESS INVESTMENT





 
 
 
>From Mr. Melton Adams
Chief Auditor and Chartered
Accountant, With Lloyds Group
Of Bank Plc, England Branch
P. O Box 10720 217 Strand,
England WC2R 1AP
My Email Address:
mr.melton_adams@yahoo.co.uk
mrmeltonadams@bullworlduk.com
 
 
 
Dear beloved friend,
                         
My Name is Mr. Melton Adams, I have a very essential application that make me to get in touch with you, I originated your professional profile very fascinating and I determined to reach you in a straight line to plead for your assistance and guiding principle in making a business investment and transfer of £30.500,000 Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling in your country within the next few working days. I am currently working as a Chief Auditor and Chartered Accountant finance with Lloyds Group Of Bank Plc, England Branch. Please my beloved friend, obtain your incredibly time and examine my genuine letter I send into your privacy.
 
 
                     HERE IS ORIGIN OF THE FUND AND DETAILS:
 
Firstly, I am 51years of age, Chartered Accountant and Chief Auditor with Lloyds Group Of Bank Plc, happily married with three children. I will forward you a copy of my identification particulars, on your positive response. I contacted you independently, based on my internal audit investigation and no one has been informed of this communication except you and I decided to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. As a matter of fact, I have been working with Lloyds Group Of Bank Plc, England Branch for some years now, I was head of the Accounting Department in the Bank corporate headquarters in England, but last December I was called up by the Board to head the Audit Committee. When I resumed duty, I discovered an account with huge sum. This account has been dormant for a while and I have the capability to make you successor of the fund under legal claims.  
 
>From the thorough investigation I made, I found out that this account belongs to Late (Mr. Engineer William Engledew), who made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for over five years now, valued at £30.500,000 Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)  I sent a regular notification to his  e-mail address but got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the United State Solid Gold Corporation that (Mr. Engineer William Engledew) the possessor of the dormant account and his wife (Dorothy Engledew) died on the spot in a fatal car accident in 2005 while he was driving his Citroen car on the A67, close to Barnard Castle. Unfortunately for him, while overtaking a goods vehicle his car crashed with a Volvo traveling in the opposite direction; please I will like you to link or click on this (BBC NEWS): website for you to find out the truthfulness of this situation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4453529.stm
 
 
Mr. Engineer William Engledew, was a consultant to several oil, manufacturing and gas industries and He had a sojourn in the United States and so many other countries, He belonged to several non-governmental and scientific organizations. On further investigation in our Bank I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his Next of Kin or his Relation were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Engineer William Engledew did not declare any Next of Kin or Relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of £30.500,000, is still sitting in our Bank. So my application to you is that I will like you as a foreigner, to stand in as the Next of Kin to the late (Mr. Engineer William Engledew). Am handling this business with you because the management of my bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information of this
account, which I will forward to you when sure of your capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and directives for our mutual benefit because I don't want to make any mistake.
 
Finally, an Attorney will prepare the necessary Draft and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary Documents, Affidavits and letter of Probate/Administration in your favor for the transfer. The money will be paid into your account for us to go over a (Profitable Business Investment partnership) in your country side. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as a Chief Auditor and Chartered Accountant, With Lloyds Group of Bank, guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. All I demand from you is absolute Sincerity Honesty, Transparency and Confidentiality and we will achieve our business objective because this business grants us the opportunity to change our cause in life to build a business empire for our children and children unborn.
 
So fill this form with your information needed and send it to me, if you are interested so that the attorney will start preparing the documents in your favor as I said. For your information, I will forward you my own information as soon as I received yours.
 
1)       YOUR FULL FIRST AND SECOUND NAME……………….
2)       YOUR HOME AND OFFICE ADDRESS……………………..
3)       YOUR DIRECT PHONE NUMBER………………………….
4)       YOUR ACCUPATION…………………………………
5)       YOUR MARITAL STATUS……………………………..
6)       YOUR AGE AND SEX……………………………..
7)       YOUR COUNTRY NAME AND STATE NATIONALITY………………………….
8)       YOUR COPY OF YOUR ID CARD………………………….
9)       YOUR ACCOUNT PARTICULARS WHERE THE FUND WILL BE TRANFER…………………….
 
So please, my friend take out your very busy schedule and contact me back immediately you received this mail. To my privet e-mail attach on this mail, thank you so much for your great understanding I will be expecting your response.
 
Best Regard,
Mr. Melton Adams
My Email Address:
mr.melton_adams@yahoo.co.uk
mrmeltonadams@bullworlduk.com
 
 
 
 
 

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