419 scam: "Maxwell King"<www.skybank@ng.org> Received Your Funds With No Upfront Payment

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "you are advise to" (this email uses bad English)
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "economic and financial crimes commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "my direct line" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348142450216

Fraud email example:

From: "Maxwell King" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <www.skyonline@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13.43.49 +0100
Subject: Received Your Funds With No Upfront Payment

Dear beneficiary,

I apologize, for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences and inflict that we might have indulge you through. However, My name is Mr. Maxwell King, i am the Manager of Skye bank Nigeria Limited, I apologize once again ,How are you doing today?, hope my email find you in good health including your household.

Am hereby to inform you that Am back to my seat at the office to proceed further with your contract payment worth of $10Million usd, and the bank have a meeting with the house yesterday on your behalf and I was the one raise the issued of your payment because I have not done with the project of your fund yet.

Right now the outcome of the meeting was is in your favor that you to be serious and focus to received your fund because this is the development on your fund by the board of trustee, if you might have been dealing with someone using my name or the bank to email you, due to my absent for years, i advise you to stop any further communication with them because, they have nothing to offer beside, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - EFCC Nigeria are monitoring incoming and outgoing emails regarding this transaction, due to scam going on in my country, so that this transaction will be on safety hands and secure and i don't want you to worry about anything regarding the fund, all i need from you is you loyalty and honest toward this transaction and am making clear to you that once you comply with any instruction given to you concerning this transaction, you have nothing to worry about as per your fund $10,000,000:00USD and i will make sure your fund delivery to you in any kind of method you wish to recei

Am hereby inform you about your over due fund worth of $10,000,000, which not be process due to the charges involved and am here to let you know that the bank bring out a new development to your fund $10, 000, 000, that you are not to pay any upfront money to receive your fund and the bank has provide you a micro finance company, which will loan you the money you need to clear your fund.

You are advise to fill the form below:

Your Full Name:

Contact Address:

Telephone number:

If you are interested, please do get back to tell you what to do next

I look forward to hear from you to know where we stand on this transaction and I will very glad if you treat my message as urgent matter. And you can also call me on my direct line for more information:+2348142450216.

Thank you and God bless.

Regards,
Mr. Maxwell King.

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