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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: raymond richard <raymondrichard609@gmail.com>
Reply-To: charlesmartins@citromail.hu
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:55:25 +0800
Subject: DID YOU GET MY EMAIL?


Hello

I am Mr. Tim Gary; a client of mine has a dormant account with a total
sum of $85,000,000.00 [EIGHTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS] during our Bank's
Annual Year Account Auditing.
The owner of this dormant account Late Igor Pavlovich Farkhutdinov who was
governor of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia during 1995-2003 died in the year
2003.For more information kindly view the below link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Farkhutdinov

Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account
till date. Moreover, this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it.
Definitely, this fund will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if
it remains dormant for a period of [30] years without any claims. In this
regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this money
out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund.
HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED:
As the group finance director of our bank, all our client account
details and file are in my possession and that makes it easy for me to
include your name as the beneficiary of the fund in all necessary documents
involving the money we wish to transfer out from our bank.
Most importantly, you will be required to (1). Act as the original
beneficiary of the funds.(2). Receive the funds into a business/private
bank account.(3). At the completion of this transaction, the sharing rates
shall be 50% for me while 50% for you.

Note: I will split the transfer into two stages for easy and smooth wire
transfer.
Firstly, the sum of $80,000,000.00 USD will be transfer to any valid
foreign account you will nominate, then upon a successful transfer without
any disappointment from our side; I will then fly to meet you in your home
destination for sharing, thereafter we will jointly transfer the remaining
balance of $5,000,000.00. I will also like us to invest some part of the
money in your country.
If you accept to work with me, you will be given 50% of the total money as
your share and 50% for me. So the main question is, will you partner with
me in this deal.

If you are willing to cooperate in this project, kindly get back to me
for more details.
Again, I will be in charge Of everything else. I will assume all
responsibilities for this endeavor Should also be % 50 % 50, you don't have
to be worry about any legal ramifications, Please don’t be discourage
because I contacted you with a public email, it’s for security reason, as I
don’t want any one in the bank to know that I am the one that master mind
this, I will write you with my official email, if you are really ready for
us to have this deal . Your Urgent response is highly anticipated, for more
details on this transaction as Soon as possible.

This should be kept very secret and confidential please.

I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Yours Truly,
Mr.Tim Gary

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