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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: "Mr. Walker" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dmk222dmk@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:17:25 -0300
Subject: Guaranteed offer

FROM THE DESK OF
Mr. Matthew Walker
Citibank UK.
No 3 Hanover Square
London W1S 1HD
United KINGDOM

Hello friend,

My name is Mr. Matthew Walker, I am the branch manager of the Citibank London, I got your information during my search for a friend before I came across your contact through the Internet. I am 48years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem but I don't know how you will feel about this mail. Though I know there's a lot of scam but am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope we can assist each other. But If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Branch manager of my bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office at the end of each year. On the course of last year 2016 end of the year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made huge sum of profits, I personally extract Seven Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pound Sterling [£7,750,000.00] which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of it. I have since placed this fund on SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money without the assistance of foreign partner, this is what prompts me to contact you for us to work together, so you can assist me to claim the funds and we share accordingly. We are splitting it 50-50 (50% for you and 50% for me). Note; there is practically no risk involved, it's legitimate and legal, all I need from you is to stand and claim as the original depositor of this fund in our branch so that my Head office can approve you as the beneficiary and release the fund to you.

On your acceptance, I will give you more details and process the legal documents in your favor to back up the claim. To process the legal documents and secure payment approval, I will require you to reconfirm your full names, address, Age, Occupation and direct tel numbers for processing. As soon as I receive your response, I will proceed with a backdated deposit slip in your name and forward to the client's data base Engineer to upload your data as old customer of the bank while we process the documents and secure payment approval in you favor.

I await your response via my private email address: dmk222dmk@yahoo.co.jp

Best Regards,
Mr. Matthew Walker

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