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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: Mary Nelson <michaellvillegas00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: marynelsonlncbnational@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 12:31:19 +0100
Subject: Can you invest funds in a lucrative business?

Esteemed Compliments,

I had previously sent you an email with no feedback from you.I
suppose it went to your junk folder.I anticipate that you read this
mail quickly and let me know your opinion or willingness on this
classified information that I will release to you. Firstly, I am a
happily married woman with kids and therefore I would not want to
jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial status that will
give my family a secured future.

I am Mrs. Mary Nelson , the Branch Manager of an Investment
Bank . It may interest you to hear that I am a
woman of PEACE and don't want problem, but I don't know how you will
feel about this, but I am telling you that this is real and you are
not going to regret after doing this transaction with me .

I only hope we can assist each other. But if you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of
us,as the Branch Manager of an investment Bank it is my duty to send
in a financial report to my head office in my country at the end of
every each year. On the course of the last two years 2017 end of the
year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the Manager
made
eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
$18,500.000.00 which my head office are not aware of and will never be
aware of, Nor must they know that I am involved in this transaction.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without
any beneficiary.

As an officer of the Bank I cannot be directly connected to this
money, so this is why I have to contact you for us to work so that you
can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to
SHARE,Meanwhile you will have 65% of the total fund and 5% to be
reimbursed for any expenses incurred during the process of the
transaction and 30% for me.

Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank
transfer , all I need from you is to stand claim as the original
depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my
Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.You
would be responsible for change of documents to your name.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very
much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details
on how we can achieve it successfully.

Please contact me via this E-mail for more details. And for further
discussion with you please provide me your confidential mobile number
Your full names ,address ,Occupation and any any identification so i
could be sure you are who you say you are.

For your information i do not call out due to health problem but my
assistant would receive or call you if necessary.


Best Regards,
Mrs Mary Nelson

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