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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: "AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <misturas789@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:25:54 +0100
Subject: HELLO DEAR FRIEND BUSINESS TRANSACTION su accc

Dear friend,

My name is MRS KOFFI JACQUES , I am the Bill and Exchange (Assistant)
Manager of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK . In my Department
I discovered an abandoned sum of Seventeen million five hundred thousand
United State of American dollars (17.5MILLION USA DOLLARS) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died on 12th August 2017

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release
it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside
with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury
as unclaimed bill.

You will be entitled with 40% of the total sum while 60% will be for
me after which I will visit your Country to invest my own share when
the fund is successfully transferred into your account, Please I would
like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top secret as
you may wish to know that I am a bank official.

PLEASE NOTE IS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

YOURS SINCERELY
MRS KOFFI JACQUES
DIRECTOR FOREIGN ACCT DEPT
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
WWW.AFDB.ORG
PLEASE RESPONSE ONLY TO THIS EMAIL mrskoffi2222@aol.com

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