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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: "Otis Nyemegoi" <kobayashi@hikariseiko.co.jp>
Reply-To: otis.nyemego@icloud.com
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:05:45 +0100
Subject: I Await Your Response

Thank you for your attention to my email. I am sharing a confidential business project with you that will be beneficial to both of us.

This is a proposal to engage you in a business opening that can earn you as much as US$3.3M guaranteed in the shortest term (1-2 weeks). The proposal is that you must be willing to assist the wife of my client Zhou Yongkang.

She is a woman who is interested in developing new business relationships outside Asia and she has appealed to me as a close family friend to help her find a trusted foreign partner under whose identity the sum of $33,000,000.00 can be transferred and invested. I have accepted the challenge to help her, hence, my open letter to you. Please follow the web link below for the latest profile of my client Zhou Yongkang.

http://www.scmp.com/topics/zhou-yongkang

I look forward to hearing any further inquiries which you may have concerning this project. Ask me all the questions you feel that need answers and please understand that this project concerns only my client and not her husband, therefore, I will beg you not to judge her by the current circumstances surrounding her husband.

I await your response.

Regards,

Otis Nyemego.

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