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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: Ahmad Ali <ahmadaaali008@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:13:10 +0000
Subject: Greetings

Greetings, I am a banker by profession, I'm contacting you
independently of my investigation in my bank, i discovered an
abandoned sum of $9.6million dollars that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died with his supposed next of kin since July 22,
2003. The money has been here in our Bank lying dormant for years now
without anybody coming for the claim of it, i need your urgent
assistance in transferring the fund into your private bank account.

I want the bank to release the money to you as the relative and the
next of kin to our deceased customer,the Banking laws here does not
allow such money to stay more than 21years,because the money will be
recalled to the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund, that is why
contacted you for a business deal where this money can be shared
between us in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you,by indicating
your interest, i will send you the full details immediately i get your
response.

Mr.Ahmad

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