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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: "Barr. Haeman Wenan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <haeman.wenan200@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:49:50 +0700
Subject: Re: Attention To You

From: Barrister. Haeman Wenan
 
 
Hello Dear,
 
 
        I know that this e-mail will come to you as a surprise since we don’t know each other before now but permit me to use this medium to contact you. For the purpose of introduction, I am Barrister.Haeman Wenan, practicing practitioner with one of the leading firms here in Asia.
 
One of our client (Mr. Johan Anderson) died in 21st July 2001 and left an investment  with a his bank up to the Sum of US$ Eight million five hundred thousand United States Dollars without any next of kin. Our records proves as much.
Usually, any financial investment that is dormant for a certain period of time is taken into the bank treasury as an unclaimed bill. The bank being aware of the death of Mr. Anderson and the non-provision of next of kin is proposing to tag his funds as unclaimed bill.
This prompted me to act. I went and discussed with the Bank to give me time to locate his next of kin before they can tag the funds unclaimed bills.
 
 
Here is your proposed role in this business:
 
 
Provision of an Off-shore account where we can transfer those funds. The account could be your personal or company’s account or you can open a new account; it doesn’t  not matter.
Acting as the next of kin to Mr. Johan Anderson (late) to this, we are going to work it out as his personal attorney of Mr. Johan Anderson in the most legal way possible.
Please, if your are interested, get back to me as soon as you read this mail so that we could discuss and agree on the percentage entitlement to every party involved and actually commence the transaction in order to accomplish it before the end of this fiscal half of when the Board of Directors of the bank will sit again.
 
 
Expecting your prompt positive response
 
 
Best regards,
 
Barr. Haeman Wenan

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