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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: info cbn <info.cbnt@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:40:00 +0000
Subject: gratification for investment


*Dear Friend, Good day to you. Apparently this email will be coming to you
as a surprise since we have not met before now. My name is Reem E.
Al-Hashimi, the Emirates Minister of State for international cooperation
and Managing Director of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) World Expo 2020
Committee. I am writing to you to know if you will be willing to receive
and invest a huge sum on my behalf. This fund is my share of gratification
from foreign companies whom I helped during the bidding exercise towards
the Dubai World Expo 2020. Am a single Arab women and serving as a
minister, there is a limit to my personal income and investment level and
For this reason, I cannot receive such a huge sum back to my country or in
my personal account, so an agreement was reached with the foreign companies
to direct the gratifications to an open beneficiary account with a
financial institution where it will be possible for me to instruct further
transfer of the fund to a third party account for investment purpose which
is the reason i contacted you to receive the fund as my partner for
investment in your country. The amount is however, valued at Euro
€47,745,533.00 Million Euro and the financial institution is waiting for my
instruction to transfer the funds to any designated account. I have decided
to compensate you with 30% of the total amount and you will also benefit
from the investment. REPLY TO: info.cbnt@gmail.com <info.cbnt@gmail.com>
FOR MORE DETAILS My Profile: http://webmail.fcmbportal.com/appsuite/
<http://webmail.fcmbportal.com/appsuite/>?*





* Regards, Ms. Reem. *

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