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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: "Edward Emerson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <onlinetransfertd7070@citromail.hu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:59:08 -0400
Subject: Your deposited fund


It has come to our attention that your fund was deposited in TD BANK OF AMERICA your Certified International Cheque of US$9,200,000,00 united state dollar which will be transferred to your TD BANK account immediately you forward your information to the bank.

After the meeting held by the United Nations and the USA Embassy, Ministry of Finance Kenya,we have been able to find out that your compensation fund was transfer in united states of America here in this country due to your delaying and its yet to be transferred to you by Bank of America because of the problem of the fees been charged in africa.And because of this reason we have decided to personally send you the letter you received so that you can respond or call to enable TD Online Banking proceed with the transferring of your fund to you.

I am happy to inform you that we have finalized everything and you are now going to receive your fund of $9,200,000,00 United States dollars as soon as you comply with the instructions of this transfer process.which we has suggested and advised that you should receive your fund through TD Online Banking immediately you submit your bank information to them and the process will take 24hours for you to receive it in your account.

Secondly,forwarded your bank details to them,so that they can also wired your funds directly into your personal designated bank account if you chose to after corresponding to this email.


Contact name:Edward Emerson
EMAIL:onlinetransfertd7070@citromail.hu


Finally, please before any further procedure i want you to respond immediately with the following information below to avoid mistake in transferring the funds to the wrong person and so that we can proceed with your choice of selection immediately:

Yours faithfully,
Edward Emerson
Managing Director,

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