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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: Dennis Williams <denniswills103@gmail.com>
Reply-To: denniswills100@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:53:56 +0100
Subject: JUST TO INFORM YOU

Greetings,

I am MR. DENNIS WILLIAMS, a Senior Management Staff in Foreign /
Operations Department with one of the local banks here in Abidjan,
IVORY COAST
(Cote D'Ivoire)

On June 6, 2010, one of our customers, a well known American Oil
Contractors/ Consultants with Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Government
GEORGE MILLER operated a Domiciliary Account with my bank and made a
numbered time (fixed) deposits amounting to US$50,750,000M (Fifty
Million, Seven Hundred & Fifty Thousand United States Dollars).

However, on investigation, it was discovered that the customer died in
accident along with his
family members.

On further investigation, I discovered that the customer had no
registered Next of Kin at the
time of deposit and all attempts to trace any of his Relatives to come
for the claim of this fund
has proved abortive till date. This sum of US$50,750,000M is still
lying in the Bank untouched. For the past 9 years now, no one has ever
come forward to claim the fund.

According to IVORY COAST (Cote D'Ivoire) Laws, at the expiration of 10
(Ten) years, the
funds shall be declared unserviceable and shall subsequently be
transferred direct to
Federal Reserve Account through Central Bank of Cote d'Ivoire if
nobody applies to claim the
funds.

However, I am soliciting for your assistance to stand in as an
appointed beneficiary to claim
this fund for YOU and ME to share so that the bank will transfer the
money into your account as his Next of Kin since the customer had no
registered Next of Kin with

our bank and as such the fund now has an open Beneficiary mandate, so
that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands
of these corrupt government officials
who might divert the fund direct into their personal pockets at the
expiration of the Ten (10)
years.

1. Please note that there is NO RISK attached to this transaction.

2. You will be entitled to 40% from the total amount as your
compensation after the transfer
of fund into your account.

3. Immediately after the successful transfer of the fund into your
account, I am going to wipe

out every information concerning you, so you need to entertain any
fears for your participation.

As soon as I receive your acceptance to participate in this
transaction, I will furnish you
with the necessary modalities to commence.

Finally, I am relying my confidence in you, believing that you will
not disappoint me.

Note - this is 100% RISK-FREE through out.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

God bless you.

Very Best Regards,
Dennis Williams.

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