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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: Mike Kwme <hb5000@gmx.com>
Reply-To: <hh6000@gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 00:16:04 +0200
Subject: From the Head of Investments & Deputy.

Good day, I am Mr. Mike Kwme, Head of Investments & Deputy Treasurer, United Bank For Africa Limited, Liberia Road, Ridge, Accra, Ghana. I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Returned Profit (ERP) per annum on each of the Investor's profit Funds. As an expert, I have made $48.6 Million(USD) over time from Investor's ERP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Tenure Investment Proceeds.
Brief history of funds: I have more than 208 Corporate Investors attached to my portfolio whose Capital Investment Funds are being managed and administered by me. This Capital Investment Funds has a value of over $19.2 Billion net. The $19.2B is been used for trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending for Profit Returns. Every end of year, each corporate investor is expected to receive interest from his Investment Capital Funds. However, I make an excess gain of 1.2% from the Investor's Capital Funds annually, which have exceeded admin targeted 20% of the returned profit. This extra of 1.2% from the 21.2% total profit is been retained by me as my personal profits for managing the Capital Investment.
However, I cannot personally claim these funds without presenting someone to stand as an Investor otherwise our establishment will convert the total funds into the company's treasury. This is why I have come to you for the deal to take place. This is a fair deal without any risk attached either on your part or on my part as long as we comply with the laws governing the claiming of funds in our establishment. I do not want you to come down to sign the Investor's Funds Release Order because you cannot defend the source of the funds during the signing as our remittance department may decide to ask you some salient questions which you may not answer correctly thereby jeopardizing the transaction.
Therefore you will inform our establishment that you will not be able to come down for the signing. I will work with an attorney to perfect all arrangements in your favor and the funds will be paid to you for our own use.
Please if you are interested to continue with this project, I demand you to get back to me so as we can proceed towards the positivity of this fair deal.
Sincerely yours
Mr. Mike.

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