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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Williams Edward" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williamsedwardson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 23:19:38 +0200
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL/INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE

 
REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL/INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
I decided to forward this business proposal of mutual benefits to you. Your contact detail was gotten, when we were searching for a reliable company/individual who could assist us in transferring the sum of Fifty- Five Million United States Dollars (US$55,000,000.00) into his/her safe overseas account. As you may want to know and make  less curious, I got your contacts from adverts in Internet business directory through a diplomat working with the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
This fund was resulted from an over-invoiced bill from contract awarded by us under the butanisation project budget allocation to my ministry to stimulate the marketing and use of liquefied moiling of gold (LMG) in the Republic of South Africa and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries.
The contract was commissioned and fully executed while the contractor has been  paid, and now left with the balance of US$55,000,000.00 as part of the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over invoiced for our own use, but under our protocols and supervision.
Right now, we the civil servant, are not allowed to operate or own foreign accounts thereby making it difficult for us. This is why we are contacting you and soliciting you to be our custodian for this fund in this case, we have agreed to share the money as follows: 25% for the owner of the account, 70% for us, while 5% is mapped out for any taxation, as may required by our government and any miscellaneous expenses during the curse of this exercise.
INTRODUCTION: I am the Chief Executive and Chairman of the contract awarding committee (CEO) of South Gold Corporation (SAAGC African Anglo).  I hereby assuring you that this transaction is very free from all sorts of risk and trouble from my government. We the SAAGC officials involved in the deal has been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and most of us this is a lifetime opportunity we cannot afford to miss, we will arrange and provide  all documentation process in order to approve the final discharge of this fund to your nominated overseas bank account.
Thus, to get this fund paid into your account, we have to present a payment application invoices form a foreign establishment like yours, and an introductory letter purported to be written by the original executor of the contract transferring ownership of this fund to you as a sister company. This document has to be back dated and registered to the contract completion date and must be verifiable with this invoice, we will seek approval to transfer the fund within 14  banking days through the APEX BANK (RBSA) to any of your nominated bank account. I or one of my colleagues involve will come over to your country to arrange for our share upon the confirmation from you that the total fund has been credited into your bank account.
Consequently, upon your acceptance of this proposal kindly confirm your interest by revert email or a call to  my private phone, your indication by  email or phone call to me of your sincere and serious interest will enable me detail you procedures for this operation. However, it should not surprise you why we have chosen and trusted you for this transaction, yes, we believe that good friends can be discovered and business like this cannot be realized without trust. This is why we have decided to trust you hoping that you will not disappoint us.
Be further informed that a more comprehensive and detailed information will be given to you once I received your response. Also I will like to inform you that everyone's interest and security has to be rest assured; therefore feel free to go into the business with us. But let honesty be our watchword throughout this transaction otherwise no deal.
Thanks and God bless.
NB  (Please kindly note that this transaction was halted due to covid-19 pandemic but has just been approved since we are now in level 1.)
Williams Edward
(CEO) AAGC
FROM: Williams Edward
TEL: 27-63-099-7844
Email: williamsedwardson@gmail.com
 

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