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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: "Dr. Anthony Watson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.anthonywatson4citibankchina@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:55:18 -0500
Subject: Re: $10.5 Million, ATM Master Card Payment

Dr. Anthony Watson,
General Manager/Branch Manager,
China Citic Bank,
Address: 748 Dong Feng, Dong Lu 510080 Guangzhou China.
 
 
                          Re: $10.5 Million, ATM Master Card Payment
 
 
Attention
 
 
I am Dr. Anthony Watson the Director of ATM Head of Operation United Bank
For Africa (UBA) Nigeria Plc, I resumed to this office on the 29th of
Dec 2015 which ever since then i have been writing you and you arent
responding my emails which during
my  official research I discovered an abandoned ATM Master card valued
sum of $10.5 Million with card number 5321452123409380 belonging to
you as the rightfully intimate beneficiary.
 
 
I tried to know why this card have not been released to you but I was
told that the former ATM head of operation who left this office two
months ago withhold your card for his own personal use without knowing
that I will not approve or
support him to take your card.
 
 
You were given two alternative options to receive your ATM CARD/FUND,
firstly,  you can come down here to our bank to pick up your ATM
MASTER CARD along with your backing up fund documents or the card will
be shipped out to you through any registered courier company in which
you will take care of the courier shipment
charges.
 
 
Right now as i am talking to you my office in been pressurizing by
different people coming to claim and ask after your fund, and which i
know very well that they are not the beneficiary of this fund but you,
they are asking me to release your fund to them but i couldn't because
I or the bank management do not recognize any of them as the
beneficiary of the fund, please i want to know if you are the one who
directed one Mr. MR.James Mcgill to contact my office and ask me to
release your fund to him, he have been sending me emails and calls
since this fund
was approved to release to you.
 
 
So Please kindly go through the email he has been sending to me all
these while and see if you know him or sent him to come to claim your
fund.
 
 
We look forward to hear from you.
 
 
Mr. Anthony Watson,
General Manager/Branch Manager,
China Citic Bank,
Address: 748 Dong Feng, Dong Lu 510080 Guangzhou China.
 
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 30 dec 2015 19:10:20
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
PLEASE DO THINK ABOUT IT AND LET ME KNOW YOUR CONCLUSION SO THAT WE
 
CAN FURTHER AHEAD AND BENEFIT FROM THIS VERY OPPORTUNITY.
 
 
MR.James Mcgill
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From: Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
To: "James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
Date: 30 dec 2015 12:08:13
 
Subject: Re: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
To whom it may concern,
 
 
Even though i did not get anything him at list i will get a reward
 
from God almighty.. I repeat do not write to me again about this fund
 
that does not belong to you. Goodbye.
 
 
Dr. Anthony Watson,
 
GTBank Management
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 30 dec 2015 06:15:04
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson,
 
 
IF I MAY ASK Dr. Anthony Watson, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WILL GAIN IF YOU
 
CONTINUE PROTECTING THIS FUND FOR THE SO CALLED  YOUR SAID RIGHTFUL
 
BENEFICIARY  WHO YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW IF HE IS STILL ALIVE OR NOT AND
 
WHY MUST YOU BE DIFFERENT AMONG OTHER OFFICIALS?
 
 
MR.James Mcgill
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From: Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
To: "James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
Date: 30 dec 2015 15:07:02
 
Subject: Re: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
 
To whom it may concern,
 
 
We have nothing to conclude because this fund that you are fighting
 
for is not yours and no matter what you do it can never be yours, and
 
point of correction i am not behaving like a kid that is why i must do
 
things right. For your information this  fund does not belong to you
 
Rather it belongs to whom we know as the intimate legitimate
 
beneficiary.
 
 
Dr. Anthony Watson,
 
GTBank Management
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 30 dec 2015 08:11:01
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
CAN WE CONCLUDE WITH THIS? AND PLEASE LET US BEHAVE LIKE MATURE MEN
 
FOR OUR SUCCESS.
 
 
MR.James Mcgill
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado ---------------------
 
From:Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
To: "James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
Date: 31 dec 2015 06:03:04
 
Subject: Re: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
 
To whom it may concern,
 
 
I am sorry i was not trained to take bribe, you can go to hell with
 
your offer and i don't care what may be my benefit!! If i you write me
 
again i will report you to the police!
 
 
 
Dr. Anthony Watson,
 
GTBank Management
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado --------------------------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 31 dec 2015 06:11:07
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
I CALLED YOU YESTERDAY CONCERNING THE FUND IN YOUR CARE AND ALL YOU
 
COULD TELL ME IS THAT THE FUND WASN'T MINE, DESPITE MY OFFers TO you,
 
SIR I AM READY TO OFFER YOU 30% FROM THE FUND IF YOU CAN HELP ME GET
 
THIS OUT. MR. JAMES PLEASE SEND ME IMMEDIATELY YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
 
DETAILS WHERE I CAN SEND YOU THE SUM OF US$15,000.00 SO THAT YOU CAN
 
USE it TO PROCESS WITH CHANGING OF THE DOCUMENTS TO BE IN MY NAME AND
 
WITH THAT THE FUND WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY MINE.
 
 
Dr. Anthony Watson THINK OF WHAT 30% OF US$10.5MILLION WILL DO IN YOUR LIFE
 
AND I DO NOT SEE ANY REASON WHY YOU SHOULD REFUSE MY OFFERS.
 
 
MR.James Mcgill
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado --------------------------------------
 
De: Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Para: "James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
Date: 31 dec 2015 10:14:06
 
Asunto: Re: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
 
To whom it may concern,
 
 
This fund does not belong to you and i will never release it to you
 
because i know the rightful beneficiary of this fund and please do not
 
write to my office again regarding this fund that does not belong to
 
you, this is how you people are stealing other people fund, so go back
 
to whosoever that directed you to my office because i will never
 
release this fund to you no matter what, goodbye
 
 
 
Dr. Anthony Watson,
 
GTBank Management
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado --------------------------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 3 jan 2016 12:17:08
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
PLEASE Dr. Anthony Watson I AM READY TO DO ANYTHING YOU WISHES JUST TO GET
 
THIS FUND, I KNOW THE FUND MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY IN MY NAME AS ITS
 
DOCUMENTS PROVES BUT WHATEVER IT WILL TAKE ME TO CHANGE THE OWNERSHIP
 
ON MY NAME I WILL DO IT Dr. Anthony Watson, PLEASE!!
 
 
PLEASE SIR, HERE IS MY ADDRESS WHERE YOU WILL DELIVER THE CARD TO ME,
 
3658 MULBERRY STREET COLDSPING, TX 77331.USA, I ASK AGAIN SIR WHAT CAN
 
IT TAKE ME TO GET THIS AND I WILL APPRECIATE.
 
 
 
I WAIT YOUR RESPOND SIR!
 
 
THANKS,
 
 
MR. James Mcgill
 
 
 
 
----- Mensaje reenviado --------------------------------------
 
From: James Mcgill <mr.jamesmcgill@yahoo.com>
 
To: "Dr. Anthony Watson" <mr.anthonywatson002@gmail.com>
 
Date: 3 jan 2016 15:19:08
 
Subject: The fund should be mine Mr. James
 
 
HELLO Dr. Anthony Watson
 
 
I WRITE FOR THE FUND SUM OF US$10.5MILLION IN YOUR BANK AND UNDER YOUR
 
CARE, SO WHAT CAN IT COST ME TO GET IT IN MY POSITION? DO I NEED TO
 
COMPENSATE YOU WITH PERCENTAGE FROM THE FUND? I AM READY TO GIVE YOU
 
WHATEVER YOU WANT IF YOU CAN RELEASE THE FUND TO ME.
 
 
I WAIT YOUR QUICK RESPOND!
 
THANKS AND GOD BLESS.
 
 
MR.James Mcgill
 
 
 
 

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