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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: "Ms. Maha Al-Ghunaim," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mahaalghunaim@bk.ru>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:56:53 +0200
Subject: FROM FIRST GULF BANK DIRECTOR, UAE,

Greetings to you,

How are you doing today? I believe you are doing great together with your family? If so thanks be to God and Almighty Allah!
I am Ms. Maha Al-Ghunaim. I work with the First Gulf Bank, Dubai United Arab Emirates, (UAE). There is an opportunity I would love to discuss with you. Kindly write back if you are interested so I would go straight to the point and tell you more about it in details.

I want to apologize for my sudden and emergency mail to you! Please I am very sorry sending you mail instead of posting this letter to your address, please I want you to understand that I did it this way because of the urgency involved on this transaction. Please bear with me. Also I want you to take this very serious and top secret. Please call me after going through this . I will give you more details after hearing from you. It’s all about moving fund to your country for investment and you will be highly compensated for this.

The amount involved is $20 Million United State Dollars. I await your response via this email or phone number (mahaalghunaim985@gmail.com
Phone: (580) 297-2959). Please return to my email or phone number if you wish to know more about your position and my sharing ratio.

Please note that you must promise to be honest in handling your part for me in this transaction project.

I looks forward to hear from you soon.

Thank you.

Regard.,

Yours faithfully,
Ms. Maha Al-Ghunaim,
Finance Director,
First Gulf Bank,
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) ????.

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