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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: "robertmorris54@hotmail.com" <robertmorris654rm@libero.it>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:44:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

>From Robert Morris,
Phone: +447700017713.



Compliments of the day, I am Mr. Robert Morris; Relationship Manager
Nat WestA Bank plc, here in United Kingdom. I am contacting you for a mutual
beneficial business with believe you will not betray me at the end. During
an auditing of bank accounts and services of our bank; I discovered a
deposit account which have not been operational for quite some time. My
discrete inquiry reveals that the owner of this account was an American
Mr. David Watkins, a multimillionaire Crude oil Merchant; He was a victim
of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Until now, nobody knows about his
bank account with Nat West Bank and my further investigation proved that
the deceased immediate family also died in the tragedy. This account holds
GBP18.3 Million (Eighteen Million Three Hundred Thousand British Pounds
Sterling) only.

I contact you as a foreigner to arrange with you the transfer out the
proceeds of this account before our next auditing. If the bank management
find out that this account has been latent for these long, it will be
frozen and the money will be returned to the bank treasury, as unclaimed
public funds. Therefore I want you to stand as the “Foreign Beneficiary".
I need your full co-operation to make this transaction work out perfectly
because the bank management is ready to approve immediate payment to
whoever that would be presented as beneficiary to this money. A perfect
transfer strategy would be put in place in your name legally, so that
nobody will suspect your claims.


With my positions and influence here; this money would be re-profiled to
your favor and transferred to any overseas bank account/s you will
nominate, but with an assurance from you that this money will remain safe
in your custody pending my arrival to join you for securing my share. For
your involvement in this deal, you will receive 40% of the total amount.
Kindly consider this offer immediately and send me your information as
follows; Your Full Name, your Contact Address And your direct Mobile
telephone Number, to enable me re-profile the fund to your name as the
heir beneficiary. Feel free to call me for further discussions and
guidance on what is expected of you. I will count on your sense of secrecy
in order to avoid risky exposure of this deal, considering the sensitivity
and magnitude of this project.

I am anxiously looking forward to your urgent response, so we can start off.

Best Regards,
Mr.Robert Morris
Relationship Manager,
NatWest Bank plc.

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