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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: Ahmed Khan <ahmed1975khan@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmed0khan@outlook.fr
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:46:55 +0000
Subject: Hello

Dear Sir or Madam

I am Mr.Ahmed Khan, who works as Director and President in our BANK
IN BURKINA FASO, During our last banking audits, we discovered that an
account belongs to one of

our foreign clients, the Mr. Wang Jian, co-founder and co-chair of the
HNA Group, a conglomerate Chinese with important real estate
properties throughout the US dead

in a accident during business trip in France Go to this link:
https://observer.com/2018/07/wang-jian-hna-founder-dies-tragic-fall/

I am writing to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $
30,000,000.00 (Thirty million United States dollars) at its counts as
Wang Jian's last foreign business partner, which I plan use the fund
to invest in public benefit as follows

1. Establish an orphanage home to help orphaned children.
2. Build a hospital to help the poor.
3. Build an asylum for the elderly and homeless.

Meanwhile, before contacting you, I did an investigation staff to
locate one of the relatives of the late Mr. Wang Jian who knows the
account, but I didn't succeed.

However, I took this decision to support orphans and less privileged
children with this fund, because I don't want this fund transferred to
our Account of Government

treasury as unclaimed fund. I am willing to offer you the 40% of the
fund for your support and assistant to transfer the fund to your
account.

More detailed information will be sent to the disaggregation
explaining how The fund will be transferred to you. Please continue to
achieve the purpose.

Waiting for your urgent response.
Attentively
Mr.Ahmed Khan

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