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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: "European Union Notification" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <caixaconfien@rocketmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:40:50 +0100
Subject: Urgent.

Atten: Sir,

This is to bring to your attention that the European Union has established this special task force to fight corruption, fraud, money, laundry and terrorism around the EEU member states.

The European Union has mandated this office to investigate, verify and approve the release of all payment claims by beneficiaries of the claimed funds without any further delays.

I am Mr Stephen Bocker director of this unit, We wish to inform you that in our records here, you have fulfilled such conditions, but the reasons why your payment has to be delayed is because there is a counter presently on your payment by one Mr Khan ,A Pakistani an American citizen who is presently trying to make us believe that you entered into an agreement with him to help you in receiving ,in his Bank account in China, so here come the big question, Did you sign any deed of Assignment in favour of Mr Khan hereby making him the current beneficiary with the following account details?.

Account name:Indo China Group LTD,A/c#USD114-102-5567-8.Bank name: Standard Chartered Bank.138-141 '1st floor Edinburgh tower .the landmark,15 queens road ,central Hong Kong, Swift code SCBL 11k111.

If you did not sign ,nor authorize Mr Khan to receive your payment on your behalf ,kindly reconfirm to this office ,your genuine Bank details and full residential address, to avoid making payment to a wrong person,attempt to divert your payment to a new account without your knowledge may have been done by your local agent or representative with the assistance of some officials ,who most of them are under investigations for misconduct, and will face prosecution under section 35A sub section 1-2-4 of the criminal code of the European Union resolutions, pending when we finish with our investigations.

This office is grad to inform you that your payment of $22.5Million shall be made as soon as the information’s requested from you is provided by you, we have a special working arrangement with some top officials of the Italian ministry of Finance, who will affect the release of your payment into your account upon the directives and instructions by this office.

I want you gladly inform you that you will this time have to personally travel to Italy or Spain and sign release documents inside the Italian Ministry of Finance, as soon as you do the signing in Italy or Spain your account will be credited before you depart from Italy or Spain.

It is very important to note that this office supersedes any office, organisations, individuals, and Banks, as such you are warned to stop any further communications with any quarters in respect of your payment to avoid complications, if you get any email, telephone calls ,Faxes in respect of this payment ,do forward to this office for proper verification's and advice.

As soon as i here from you, i shall update you on how and when to travel to Italy or Spain.

I await your urgent response.

Regards.

Stephen Bocker.
+44 770 002 5508

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