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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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Fraud email example:

From: "A. C. Kuma" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jfranky01@yandex.ru>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:09:59 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED

Hello Dear Friend
My greetings to you and your family.

I am Lawyer Prof A. C. Kuma. an Attorney at law here in London, and I am contacting you on my late of my late client, who has the same last name with you, a citizen of your country who lived in the United Kingdom for many years. he was my client for many years before his untimely death in a terrorist bombing attack accident in London, that involved him and the only wife.

Before the ugly incident, he was on a project of establishing a telecommunication company in a country outside the United Kingdom which I was his accounting offer then and confident in all the transactions till his death. For the project, he made a time deposit of eleven Million seven hundred and twenty thousand British Pounds (£11,720,000.000,00) to establishing the telecommunication company.

As a result of his death, the bank started contacting me following the termination of the time deposit agreement to forward to them the relatives of my decease client for the claim of his fund under their custody. All my efforts as the attorney since then to trace his family back to your country failed till I decided to trace his family last name (surname) through the internet and Facebook where I got your contact.

The reason why I am contacting you for this is because of your surname identity and nationality which is the same with my late client. For this reason I want to present you to as the next of kin to the said fund and the claim it into your designated bank account, to avoid the fund being confiscated by the bank. I have no doubt that my Late client maybe your relative either directly or by linage which you may not know due to his long stay here in London so I need you to reply and send me your letter of acceptance to proceed and stand as the beneficiary next of kin to claim of the inheritance.

I am waiting for your urgent reply?

Best Regards
Honorable . Prof A. C. Kuma (ESQ)

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