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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: "Reem A. E" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <reem9999@naver.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:23:16 -0800
Subject: Hello

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 United Arab Emirates (Dubai) World Expo 2020 Committee. I am writing you to know if your would be willing to recieve 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 get benefit from the investment.
 
If you would love to know more, kindly reply to my email: reem2018@daum.net
My Profile: https://www.zu.ac.ae/leadership2008/hashemi.html
 
Regards,
Ms. Reem.

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