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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: fredrick watkins <watkins_62@msn.com>
Reply-To: <fredrick_watkins1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:26:17 +0000
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?Urgent_Ass?= =?Windows-1252?Q?istance_Ne?=
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1 Kings Park Road, Moulton Park,
Northampton NN3 6NW,
London, England


Dear Friend,

My name is Mr Fredrick Watkins,the Group Finance Director,Treasury & Insight Nationwide Bank of England. I personally discovered a dormant bank account with a total sum of US$65,000,000.00 {Sixteen-five Million United States Dollars Only} during our bank's annual yearly account auditing.

A deceased client of mine, Mr. Raffaela Sepp from Frankfurt Germany, died as a result of a plane crash on Wednesday, 26 July 2000 in Germany. The website shown below will brief you in a more elaborated detailed insight about the rough incident of the plane crash that led to the death of my client.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/851119.stm

The owner of the dormant account is a foreigner by name Mr. Raffaela Sepp died on Wednesday, 26 July 2000, in a plane crash, since his death, nobody has operated in his bank account with Nationwide bank London till date.

Moreover, this account has no beneficiary attached to it. Definitely, this funds will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if it remains dormant for a period of more [6] month without any claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full corperation in transferring this dormant funds out of our bank to avoid confiscating these funds or transfering it to British Treasury. I will split the funds into two 2 batch for easy and smooth transfer to your account. First, I will transfer US$5,000,000.00 to any valid foreign account you will nominate, upon a successful transfer without any disappointment from your side; I will then fly to meet you in your country home for sharing, thereafter we jointly transfer the
remaining balance of US$60,000,000.00 to the same account for magnitude investments.

If you are willing and capable to corperate in this transaction let me know immediately so that I can give you more directives/procedures of this transaction. Kindly contact me through this email so that I can check and reply you day and night, at home and office.

I await your response.

Best Regards,
Mr Fredrick Watkins.

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