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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:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- wdesmond538@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: desmond williams <desmondwwillms@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 11:25:00 +0100
Subject: Desmond Williams
Please accept my sincere apology if this message does not meet your
personal ethics as i had to contact you via this medium because I
desperately need to get in touch with someone as you who may be
remotely associated or connected as a relative of one of our late
customer here in the Bank who used to be a contractor with an oil
servicing company based here in Cote Ivoire. but died in a plane
mishap in Venezuela 16/8/2005 which has just come to the limelight in
our bank not quite long now .
Since the incident of this his death, his portfolio and investment
worth over 9.8 millions Pounds has not been touched because no named
next-of-kin was found in his bio-data form. Now, this investment has
generated a very good interest in British Pounds as he was operating a
domiciliary GBP accounts with our bank . The bank management has
therefore authorized me as the person in charge of this investment
portfolio to locate any living relative of this investor so that the
funds can be paid to the family of the late investor in line with the
banking ethics and standard practice .
I have therefore approached you strictly on a mutual consent business
proposal to facilitate the processing and claims of this investment
portfolio while i will provide you with priviledged insider
information . I will simply nominate and provide you with insider
priviledged relevant information and documentations to enable you
claim the funds as my inability to locate any known relative will
invariably empower the bank to revert / re-circle these funds into the
bank treasury as unclaimed funds and people that know nothing about
the source of the funds will spend it as that is the irony of the
banking industry which is purely aberrational.
Respond back to me immediately you receive this email so that I shall
provide you with further needed details.
Bear in mind that this is strictly a deal and i am only offering you a
hand to facilitate the process and the proceeds shall be evenly shared
between us .contact me in this email(wdesmond538@yahoo.com
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Desmond Williams .
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