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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: "Mr. Richard Zitia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ifc-wbg@financier.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:48:54 +0100
Subject: Hello, Urgent Massage from Richard

Dear friend,

I am Mr. Richard Zitia, I work with the audit department of the federal reserve bank here in USA. I need your partnership in a funds transfer process
involving a long time unclaimed deposit of $35,000,000 (Thirty-Five Million US Dollars). All efforts to trace any living relative of the deceased
customer did not yield any positive result. Meanwhile, the banking policy states that after 7 years any unclaimed funds must be confiscated and taken
to the banks treasury as an unclaimed funds. Automatically, this funds goes back to the Government, and I wont want such to happen, reason because this
Governments havent done nothing for us, things are still going bad everyday, more so, the huge funds will instantly be used for more weapons which brings
more distructions. So as the direct account officer, I have just been giving 14 working days to present the relative/next of kin of the deceased customer
or have the funds confiscated.

I can use my office to present you as next of kin to the deceased and have the funds transferred for our mutual benefit. There are no risks whatsoever
attached. I will personally oversee the process of this transfer of funds from the bank to your account. It will be a great pleasure having this wonder opportunity with you, get back to me immediately for more details.

Please reply to my private email:(ifc-wbg@financier.com)


Best Regards,

Mr. Richard Zitia

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