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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: Olabode Donalds <glbalcom@gmail.com>
Reply-To: oladonaldsde@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:57:18 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir

Hello,


I am Account manager, to late Mr. Whyte Griggs, Oil merchant with
Shell-development Company and wealthy business man. He died in a Sosoliso
Plane Crash along with his family on Sunday 11 December 2005 and left
behind his deposit of US$56,000,000.00 (Fifty Six Million United States
Dollars) with Union Bank Plc.


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his Next
of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be Released
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed
next of kin or relation died along side with him leaving nobody behind to
claim the money.

I am contacting you to assist in retrieving the money valued at about
US$56,000,000.00 (Fifty Six Million United States Dollars) that was left
behind by my client with Union Bank Plc before it gets confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank.


Consequently, the bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next 21 official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for years now, I
hereby seek your consent to act as his next of kin, so the fund can be paid
to you, since you have the same last name with him.

Note:

This should be considered as a deal between both of us and no body should
know about it, until we a have successfully finalized the transfer to your
account.

All the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up this deal is
available.


Information needed from you include:

1. YOUR FULL NAMES
2. YOUR FULL CONTACT ADDRESS
3. YOUR AGE AND OCCUPATION
4. YOUR CONTACT MOBILE NUMBER/FAX NUMBERS

Awaiting your urgent reply
Thanks and my regards.

Olabode Donalds

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