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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: Burleson Groom <edwson987@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drburlesongroom10@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:02:56 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,

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Dear Friend,

I am delighted to contact you for a mutual business transaction. First
permit me to introduce myself; I am Burleson, a banker. I am
contacting you to assist in the claim of some outstanding sum of
money, which was left, by one of our very good customer Late Mr. Roman
Blum who died last year at the age of 97yrs.

He left no known next of kin and all our attempts to trace someone
related to him to whom we could pay the money proved abortive. I have
now personally decided to contact you to stand as the business partner
so I can present you as his next of kin using my influence as a staff
of this bank.

The amount involved is US$4.6million, which is the account balance.
You can take time and verify from the website as shown herein for
confirmation, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/holocaust-survivor-left-an-estate-worth-almost-40-million-but-no-heirs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and
operate a foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to
claim the money.

I have agreed that 40% of the entire sum would be for you if you agree
to take part in this profitable transaction, 55% for me while the
remaining 5% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be
incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties after
the fund has been claimed as the next of kin.

You should send me the following information:

1. Your full names:
2. Your postal/home address:
3. Your private telephone

Upon the receipt of the above information I shall send you more details.

I look forward to hearing from you ASAP.
Yours faithfully,
Burleson

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