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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: "Ms.Angela aneke" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.angelaaneke1online@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 06:51:01 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT

Good Morning

Please our financial breakthrough has arrived. One of our investor that died on Tuesday August 16, 2005 in a plane crash in Venezuela has come to the limelight in our bank because since 2005 that he died his portfolio worth 24, millions Pounds has not touch because no name next-of-kin was found in his bio-data form, if you are familiar with Investment Banking affairs those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity with some levels of detachment from conventional processes as they operates their accounts with numbers, pin and codes for the avoidance of scrutiny as they follow their investment with portfolio monitoring tools to track their account's gains and losses so when they die their investment die with them as mostly their families know not about the investment. Now this investment has generated a huge accrued interest to the amount of 1.9 Million British Pounds because he was operating a domiciliary pounds account hence the bank management authorized my office as the Associate Professor of Acc

Yours Sincerely,
Ms Angela Aneke
Managing Director / Associate Professor of Accounting & Finance
Investment/Private Banking Division
Citi Bank CÑ„te d'Ivoire
Phone: +225 88 24 9997
mr.angelaaneke1online@gmail.com
Address: 01 Bp 3698 Abidjan 01

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