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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: "MR.EDWARD KONG" <godwinwisdom401@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.edwadkonng14@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:58:23 -0800
Subject: Greetings friend,

Mr. Edward Kong
Vice President/Manager
The Bank of East Asia (USA) NA
Flushing Branch
39-02 Main Street,
Flushing, NY 11354, USA
(mr.edwadkonng14@gmail.com)

Greetings friend,

I am Mr. Edward Kong, the Vice President and Branch Manager of The
Bank of East Asia (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 in 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 series of efforts to locate
his family but all efforts were proved abortive. I also carried out
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 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 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
transaction. This is why I am contacting you so that we can put heads
together and take care of this transaction within now and the next 9
days.

Kindly get back to me immediately at (mr.edwadkonng14@gmail.com) so
that I advise you on how this would be carried out.

Sincerely,
Mr. Edward Kong
Vice President/Manager
The Bank of East Asia (USA) NA
Flushing Branch
39-02 Main Street,
Flushing, NY 11354, USA
(mr.edwadkonng14@gmail.com)

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