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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: "Mr. Micheal Ofori" <johabiza@gmail.com>
Reply-To: micofori123@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 08:40:44 +0100
Subject: MY REGARDS TO YOU

My Name is Mr.Thomas Joey .K, the Chief Operating Officer of a
financial institution here in United Kingdom. I got your information
during my search through the Internet.It may interest you to hear that
I am a man of PEACE and don't want problems, I only hope we can assist
each other. If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it, as
I will not contact you again. However, it's just my urgent need for a
partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.

An account was opened in my bank by one of my customer in the name of
MR. THOMAS BAHIA a Dutch National from Germany who was a
consultant/contractor with the Lands and Natural Resources here in
United Kingdom made a numbered time fixed Deposit, valued at £
15,000,000.00, for twelve (12) calendar months in my Bank branch and
since 2010, this account has never be operated.

Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and
finally I discovered from his contract employers that MR. THOMAS BAHIA
is no longer on earth because he died with his entire family on a
plane crash that occurred in Libya on the 12th of May 2010 and below
is a link for your view.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html

The said fund is still in my Bank branch and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. Now the
fund is £7,500,000.00 Pounds, because of the accumulated interest.In
accordance with United Kingdom Government Law, at the expiration of 10
(Ten) years, the money will be reverted back to the ownership of the
Government of United Kingdom, if nobody comes forward for the funds
and it will be tag unclaimed funds.

Consequently, I want to present you as the next of kin to this late
customer; hence you are a foreigner like him and the funds will be
transferred to your Bank account and after the successful transfer of
the funds, I will come over to your country for the sharing and the
money will be shared in the ratio of 60% for me, 40% for you I do
need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this.
It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to
stand as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be
transferred to your account.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to
me. This is why and only reason why I contacted you, I am willing to
go into partnership investment with you owing to your wealth of
experience, So please if you are interested to assist on this venture
kindly contact me back for a brief discussion on how to proceed.

Thanks,

Mr.Thomas Joey .K

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