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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: jimi ade <jimiadeskyebankng@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 04:27:55 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE FOR THIS TRANSACTION

Dear Friend.

I am Mr. Jimi Ade , with Skye Bank Nigeria Plc, I Hoped that you will
not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to
establish with you for the mutual benefit of you and myself
Meanwhile, I am an account officer with a deceased customer, and After
his death since 2018 nobody has ever come to claim the money as his
next of kin and the total amount in the account is $12.5million US
dollars, so My intention now is to transfer the money to any Foreign
account and needs your partnership for easy assistance hence nobody
has ever come forward for the claim of the said money.

The reason why I contacted you is that after the bank audit last year
they find out that this fund has remained unclaimed since the death of
the deceased costumer.

I want our bank to release this fund to you as the nearest person to
our deceased customer while I come over to your country to share this
fund with you as soon as you confirm this fund into your Bank account
and ask me to come over, I don't want the money to go into our Bank
treasure as an abandoned fund, So this is the reason why I contacted
you so that our bank will release the money to you as the next of kin
to the deceased customer.

However, Please if you are interested to stand as the next of kin to
the money kindly reply me back immediately for more advice it is an
urgent matter and I will like you to keep this proposal as a top
secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Regards
Mr. Jimi Ade

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