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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: Mark Kunde <markkunde01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:59:34 +0000
Subject: 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 want you to stand in as the relative and the next of kin to
claim this fund in our bank. I want the bank to transfer the fund into
your private bank account 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, immediately the fund transfer into your bank
account, by indicating your interest i will send you the full details
on how the transfer will be executed.

Mr.Mark

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