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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: Mr Hassan Al Riyami <barristerfrimpongquartey@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hassanalriyami007@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:35:18 +0100
Subject: Sir/madam,

We would like to develop a business relationship with you by establishing a
trust agreement whereby you shall hold, manage, invest and distribute all
assets received from us in trust and the proceeds there from, under the
term of trust agreement.
I am a Consultant to an influential politician who was a Federal Minister
in the Federal Republic of Nigeria who has been able to use his status to
move the sum of $30 Million from the Malabo oil fund you can visit this
link for more details

https://apnews.com/c3df1b8ccc3c45d3b320210275113329

The fund is presently deposited in a financial firm. My client, because of
his present condition he can not be physically involved in the management
of this money; hence he will do this by way of proxy and fiduciary agent in
order to avoid any probe by present democratic government in Nigeria.

I am requesting your assistance as trusted and reliable friend to help
secure investment programs available. You should be aware that you and your
associate will manage the complete process and escort our fiduciary agent
through the various procedures. If the above is workable for you and your
associates, I would be glad to forward our standard discretionary asset
management agreement for you to look and make any necessary amendment if
any. This agreement, we hope is to ensure the safety of funds and
consolidate the relationship. Prior to handing over the funds to you and
your associates, we hope to arrange for preliminary meeting with you where
the original of the agreement will be signed by you and our fiduciary
agent/me. To ensure the success of this transaction it should be handled
with utmost secrecy and confidentiality


I await your urgent response.
Best regards
Mr Hassan Al Riyami
plot 7071, Adeola Hopewell Street,
PMB 80054Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria.

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