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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: Suvo Sarkar <info.legalcalderon@gmail.com>
Reply-To: svsark.emiratesnbd@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 05:23:55 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

Hello

I got your email contact from Linkedin social network. My name is Suvo
Sarkar, the Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management at Emirates
NBD. Kindly permit me as I want to solicit your confidence in an
important and confidential business transaction which I believe it
will benefit both of us after completion; this is by virtue of its
nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of
the day.

I am contacting you because I want to present you as the Next of Kin
to my deceased client who happens to share the same last names with
you. Being his bank account manager, I have been mandated by the bank
to present his next of kin or any of his relatives who would claim his
inheritance worth of Thirty million United State Dollar ($30 million).
I seek your permission to present you as his only known relative and
next of kin so the proceeds can come to you, while we share between us
50/50 of the inheritance fund. Or use the sum on joint venture
business/project in your Country

I will give you more details upon your affirmative response

Regards,

Suvo Sarkar
E-mail:- sovsarkarnbd@gmail.com

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