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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: Tony Eze <tonyeze84@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:48:28 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE FOR THIS TRANSACTION

Dear Friend.

I am Mr.Tony Eze, with Skye Bank Nigeria Plc, I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to establish with you for the mutual benefit of both of us.

Meanwhile, I am an account officer with a deceased customer with my bank, and After his death nobody has ever come to claim his money as his next of kin and the total amount in the account is $12.5million US dollars, so My intention now is to transfer the money to any Foreign account and needs your partnership for easy assistance hence nobody has ever come forward to the claim they said money.
The reason why I contacted you is that after the bank audit in 24th of November, 2016 the bank finds out that this fund has remained unclaimed since the death of this deceased costumer.

So, I want our bank to release this fund to you as the next of kin to our deceased customer while I come over to your country to share this fund with you as soon as you confirm this fund into your Bank account hence , I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasure as an abandoned fund, So this is the reason why I contacted you so that our bank will release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer.

Please if you are interested to stand as the next of kin to the money kindly reply me back immediately for more advice it is an urgent matter and will like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Regards
Mr.Tony Eze,

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