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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: Christian Artwell <christiankodjoartwell.oral.tg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:33:06 +0200
Subject: Greetings to you,

Greetings to you,

I am HON.CHRISTIAN ARTWELL working with ORABANK S.A LOME,TOGO as their
SECRETARIAT GENERAL FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT, as an account officer to late
Engineer George,I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and
confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our
both families.

I have the opportunity of transferring the leftover funds belonging to one
of customer late Engineer George who bears the same surname with you. Our
late customer late Engineer George was a companion to former Libyan
President Muhammar Gaddafi and Gaddafi was using him to run transactions
globally and the bottom line is that our late customer late Engineer George
was assassinated in Libya. I am his personal account officer with the
account he has with our bank. My purpose of contacting you is that our late
customer late Engineer George deposited funds valued at (US$9.6 million)
with (150 kg of Gold) with our bank before his death without an heir
apparent, NEXT OF KIN, or beneficiary. I would like to present you as the
NEXT OF KIN to late Engineer George in order for you to lay claim to the
aforementioned funds and gold.

I solicit your cooperation and assistance. For this, I need your urgent
assistance in transferring the (US$13.6 million) with (150 kg of Gold) to
your account within 10 or 14 banking working days. This money has been
dormant for years in his account with our bank without claim. Our bank will
release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer,
late Engineer George . I don't want the money to go into the government
treasury as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I am contacting
you so that our bank can release the funds and the Gold to you as the NEXT
OF KIN to the deceased customer late Engineer George .

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it
if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full
details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will
have 50% of the above mentioned sum while 50% will be for me, if you agree
to handle this business with me. I am expecting your urgent response
immediately.

Please be advised that the confidentiality of this transaction is
non-negotiable. Reply me as soon as possible

Best Regards.

HON.CHRISTIAN ARTWELL
SECRETARIAT GENERAL
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
ORABANK S.A LOME,TOGO

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