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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: "Mr. Peter Marcus" <mr_petermarcu3@zurichcentralbank.com>
Reply-To: mrpetersmarcus@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:04:07 +0200
Subject: My name is Peter Marcus Ramon,

Good day
My name is Peter Marcus Ramon,
I work with one of the Banks here in abidjan cote d' lvoire. I am the
personal accounts manager to one Engr. Norman.R.Frank , a National of U.S.A
from new york, who owned a construction company here in Ivory Coast (Cote
D'Ivoire)norman construction company my client, his wife, and their three
children were involved in the Airways crash in which all passengers on
board died.Since the death of my customer,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Airways_Flight_431

I have made several inquiries to his embassy to loca
te any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. After
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you


my late customer, deposit with our bank US$5 million United States
dollars. Being the personal a/c manager of the deceased's account, the
bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin/beneficiary or else
the bank will declear the account unserviceable and thereby forfeit the
funds to the bank treasury.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over the past
2 years now,I hereby seek your consent (with due respect and honour) to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of
this account can be paid to you and then you and I will share the money 50
/ 50.All .I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this
deal throw However, I urgently need you the following information from you
which I have to place in the computer file of the deceased as next of
kin/beneficiary:

(A) your full name,
(B) your date of birth
(C) resident address together with your telephone and fax for easy
communication
I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Need you be interest,
kindly reach me via my private email
as indicated above for further details. Thanks in advance as I anticipate
your maximum
co-operation in this regards.
Mr Peter

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