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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: Ray England <jmvhrental10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: nikitademmm@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 04:20:05 -0800
Subject: Can we seal this deal?


Hi,



The internet has been grossly abused by scam artists and miscreants whose
intention is to fleece others. In as much as one should be careful, at the
same time we should not allow negative to kill the positive potential in a
realistic business, please read my proposal carefully and it is 100%
Risk-free.

My name is Raymond George England Branch manager, HSBC here in England,
married with three children. I am writing this letter to ask for your
support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my
organisation. After annual audit Last month in my branch I discover
documents of a late customer Mr. Andreas Schranner A German business
magnate who made a numbered fixed deposits with this branch valued £16.7M
(Sixteen Million And Seven Hundred Thousand British Pounds) and I was privy
to have the Soft copy documents with me in safe custody. I discovered from
his employers- the Exxon Deutshcland, that Mr. Andreas Schranner, died in
the plane crash Monday, 31 July 2000, (An Air France Jet Liner) with his
entire family and other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself
via the website below with BBC NEWS:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm

According to British banking law after the expiration of 18 years, if
nobody had applied for the claim it would be remitted to Her Majesty's
Treasury (HM Treasury). I'm therefore soliciting your support to stand as
next of kin/ beneficiary to claim these funds so that we move it into
useful investment. I'm ready to share with you 40% for you and 60% will be
kept for me, You will provide an account where the fund would. This is
something I can't accomplish alone since I'm still in active service. Our
service Code of Conduct prohibits a civil servant from operating a foreign
bank account.

Please provide me with the following details if you are interested:

(1) Direct Phone number.
(2) Your Full Names:
(3) Current Resident Address.
(4) Your Private Email Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age


Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to ask and I shall be
more than happy to answer them. please discard this message if you are not
interested. One Passionate appeal i will make to you is not to discuss this
matter with anyone, if you have any reasons to reject this offer, please
delete this message as any leakage of this information will have dire
consequences for me.

Yours Sincerely,
Raymond England




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