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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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Fraud email example:

From: EDWARD KONG <mr.victorferguson12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: edwardkonng64@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:06:39 -0800
Subject: THE FUND IS DUE FOR TRANSFER, VERY URGENT


FROM THE DESK OF:
Mr Edward Kong
Vice President/Manager
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ICBC (USA)
Flushing Branch
39-02 Main Street,
Flushing, NY 11354, USA
edwardkonng64@yahoo.com

Greetings friend,

I am Mr Edward Kong, the Vice President and Branch Manager of Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China ICBC (USA), Flushing Branch Flushing New York,
USA. I write to seek your consent to carry out a transaction that would be
highly beneficial to you and me. I know you may be wondering why I am
contacting you for this despite all the friends and relations that I have
but I decided to do this with an unknown person to avoid any form of
blackmail in the future.
Mr Alvin Peter Kappelmann Jr was an account holder with my bank. I have
been his account officer for 11 years before his death. He died during the
World Trade Centre bombing on September 11, 2001. Please confirm from this
site:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2632.html

Since his death, the management of my bank has made a series of efforts to
locate his family but all efforts were proved abortive. I also carried out
a series of research to find his family but it was confirmed that the
mother who was the only surviving member of the family died at the hearing
of the son’s death. He was already divorced before his death and due to
this fact; no one was able to claim the fund he deposited in my bank
legally because there was no will to it. He had a secret dollar account
with my bank which was worth the sum of $58,200,000.00 (Fifty-Eight
Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with an interest
agreement of 6.7%, which has been for the past 9 years.

My purpose of contacting you now is this:

My bank during the last executive board meeting resolved that if by the end
of this year and there is no beneficiary to the said account, the account
will be confiscated and the fund sent to the bank treasury and this is
where I am interested in and wants you to come in:
I want you to come in as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to this account. I
have some of the titled documents to back your claim and as the Vice
President and Manager of this branch, it is in my power to carry out any
form of verification on the beneficiary of the said fund and process the
fund wire without any problem. I want you to know that this is legal, 100%
risk-free as all the titled documents would be changed to your name, and
the fund wired to any bank account you wish to have it wired to.

Please note that I am willing to let you have 50% of the total sum while
you give me 50% when the fund finally gets to your nominated bank account.
Also, note that I am willing to go an extra mile to make this a success
because if anything goes wrong, then I stand the risk of losing my job and
even go to jail for trying to carry out such a transaction. This is why I
am contacting you so that we can put heads together and take care of this
transaction within the next 9 days.
Kindly get back to me immediately at ( edwardkonng64@yahoo.com) so that I
advise you on how this would be carried out.

Sincerely,
Mr Edward Kong
Vice President/Manager
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ICBC (USA)
Flushing Branch
39-02 Main Street,
Flushing, NY 11354, USA
edwardkonng64@yahoo.com

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