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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: "profsa@umpire.com" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <profsa288@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:56:52 +0200
Subject: i wait your reply

Good Afternoon,

This is extremely important and classified as such please read attentively. I was in your country in October last year where I went to look for any member of your family because of the issue of (£23.7 million) your presume relative who shares the same family's name with you left in our bank. Right now, My bank is planning to move this money into our treasury as unclaimed and abandoned monies because it is over 15 years that it has been abandoned. I can't fold my arms and allow this to happen when people like you and I can use part of this money to help ourselves and the poor around us. What needs to be done now to prevent my bank from taking this money is for me to immediately insert your name into the Customer Information Sheet (CIS) and officially make you his heir, and once that is done, the money will automatically become yours by the right of inheritance, then we follow our bank inheritance claim procedures, secure the funds and then share it equally between us afterward. Please, this has nothing to do

Best Regards
Samer Azhari
profsa@umpire.com
www:blomfrance.com

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