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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: Anthony Lucas <edw6290@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:36:06 -0600
Subject: Hello

Anthony Lucas
Head Credit and foreign department
IBBL iBanking Service
1665 Oyan Jolayem Street
Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria.

Hello

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
Late Alexandria Post from America An Oil consultant/contractor with
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation made a numbered time
(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months,valued at 25.5m usd 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
i discovered from his contract employers that the consultant died from
an accident, and all my attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless,I therefore made further investigation and discovered that
the consultant did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents with my bank the of the deposit,This sum of 2 5.5m
usd is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over
with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one have ever
come
forward to claim ithe fund but I am contacting you to stand as the
next of kin to Late Alexandria Post as for us to claim the fund
because my board of directors in a meeting last week had mandated me
to put up a report on Late Alexandria Post fund and recommendations
for confiscation if there's no claim.

.If this transaction will interest you, I will assured you that
there's no risk on this , as all the paperwork fort his transaction
will be done by me and my position as the Bank Official guarantees the
successful execution of the transaction.

Do let me know as you receive this email and if you can work with me
so we can in details .

>Best regards

Anthony Lucas
Head Credit and foreign department
IBBL iBanking Service
1665 Oyan Jolayem Street
Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria.

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