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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: Raymond P. Chandler <P.Chandler@live.cn>
Reply-To: critinefrank@gmail.com
Date: 22 May 2020 18:23:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Please Get back to me as soon as possible

Hello Dear,

With due respect and humility, I write to you this proposal,
Though we haven't met before but I believe, one has to risk
confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. I am the
manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of a commercial bank in USA. l strongly assured you that this
transfer project is 100% risk free based on your capability and
reliability to champion this business opportunity.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of
(USD$32,000,000.00) Thirty-Two Million United States Dollars. In
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
as a result of the covid 19 pandemic.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines and policies, but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation was not mention in his
documents.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make
this business proposal to you and to release the money to you as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and i don't
want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

According to our Banking policies and guideline here which
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after 3 month,
the money will automatically be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner i cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, and 50 % would be for me. Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easier and effective
communication and location where the money will be remitted to
you.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text
of the application, I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer .

Trusting to hear from you immediately on critinefrank@gmail.com

Your's Sincerely,

MR.Raymond P. Chandler.

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