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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: connectlaw@live.com
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:43:52 +0800
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary,

I wish to notify you that Late Henry Allingham made you a beneficiary to
his funds.He left the sum of £17,000,000,00 Seventeen Million Great
British Pounds to you in a Bank account number:ABP-LN-685-00/
52207712321 with a Security Deposit Bank here in london UK.

He was the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last surviving
member of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the last
surviving founding member of the Royal Air Force (RAF).Late Henry
Allingham died on the 18th of July, 2009 at the age of 113years,and
his funds is now ready for execution.According to him this money
is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the
needy in our society.

Please if I reach you this time as I am hopeful,endeavor to get back to me
as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job.By replying to this
e-mail,you will have to update the form below so that I can contact you
and also send you the AFFIDAVIT FORM IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION
which you will have to fill and submit to the Security Deposit Bank for
claims.

1.Name in full:..........................
2.Address:................................
3.Nationality:..........................
4.Date of Birth:....................................
5.Occupation:..............................
6.Phone/Fax:...............................
7.Present Country.......................

This is my email contact address :connectlaw@live.com. Please get back to me
as
soon as you read this e-mail so that we can proceed further with remittance
to you.I hope to hear from you in nodistant time.

Yours in Service,
Barrister Jackson Williams

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