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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: Enoch Usmani <elline.kojoh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rowani2eva@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:48:04 -1200
Subject: Get back to me for more details

Dear Sir / madam,

How are you today? I hope fine.

My name is Mr Enuch Usmani a staff of one of a Commercial Bank here in
my country. I have a confidential business proposition for you. I got
your contact from (Companies Directory of your country) An oil
consultant / contractor, Mr Todd Adams made a numbered time of fixed
deposit for twelve calendar months valued at Five Million united
states dollar (US$5.000.000.00) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, i sent a reminder and finally discovered from his
contact employers, that he died along with in auto crash. On further
investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all
attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I also made further
investigation and discovered that, he did not declare any next of kin
in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork.
This sum of US$5.000.000.00 is still in our Bank and the interest is
being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year, no
one have come forward to claim it.

According to our banking ethics and law , at the expiration of 8
years, the money will revert to the ownership of our bank if nobody
applies to claim the funds. Now, my proposal is that I would want you,
as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr Todd Adams so that
the fruits of this man's labor will not get into the hands of some
corrupt government officials in my country.

This is simple,
1)I want you to provide to me your complete name and address so that
an attorney will prepare all the necessary documents and affidavits,
which will put you in place as the next of kin to this fixed deposit.
We shall employ the services of lawyer for drafting all the necessary
documents in your favor to enable the transfer of this fund to you as
the beneficiary / next of kin of Mr Ismail Adam The money will be paid
into your nominated account for us to share in the ratio of 50% for
you and 50% for me.

There is no risk as all the paper work for this transaction will be
done by the attorney and my position as a staff of this department,
guarantees the successful execution of this deal.If you are
interested, reply immediately. Upon your response I shall then give
you more details and relevant documents that will help you understand
the deal very well.

Kindly observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall
require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Regards,
Mr Enuch Usmani

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