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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: Michael Burlington <info.transferdept.fedreserve.c@gmail.com>
Reply-To: michaelburlington2022@indamail.hu
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:37:47 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

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PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
215 Oxford Street W,
London
Ontario N6H 1S5 Canada.


Dear Sir/Ma

My name is Michael Burlington, an accounts manager

with TD Canada Trust Bank. I retrieved your email

address in my search in the internet for a reliable

and trustworthy person that i can transact with.

I was the Account Officer to Late Engineer James

who died of COVID 19 six months ago.

Before his death, he had an investment deposit with

my bank totaling the sum of $47,500, 000.00 (FORTY

SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS

ONLY).

Late Engineer James lost his wife and two children

in an auto crash three years ago.

All efforts made by our Bank to locate his

relatives have been unsuccessful so I decided to

write you as I have monitored this account in the

bank for a year and three month now and no one has

come forth with any claim.

The last time i visited him in the hospital before

his death, he confidently told me that 50% of the

total deposit in my Bank will be given to an

orphanage, but he did not say anything about the

remaining 50%.

Reply via my private email address at:

michaelburlington2022@indamail.hu for further

clarification.

If your response is positive stating you are

interested to work with me, I will provide you

with my private cell phone number so that we could

have a confidential conversation.

Please also be kind to get back to me if you are

not interested.

Kind Regard,
Michael Burlington.

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