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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: Fredrik Dawie <calin.simionas@imogrup.ro>
Reply-To: dawiefredrik@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 18:09:25 -0700
Subject: RE;


Email: dawiefredrik@gmail.com
Telephone:+27710685601

Hello

My Name is Fredrik Dawie a top Bank Officer with Standard Bank of South Afr=
ica and I am in need of a reliable foreigner to carry out this important de=
al.

An account was opened in my bank by one of my customers a Dutch National fr=
om Germany who made a fixed deposit of $11,100,000.00 (Eleven Million, One =
hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and never show up again and I later=
discovered that he died with his entire family members on a plane crash th=
at occurred in Libya on the 12th of May 2010 which I can give you a link to=
that crash if you care.

Since nobody is coming for this fund or knows about this fund I want to pre=
sent a foreigner like you as next of kin to my late client so we can make t=
he claim and you can contact me if you are interested so I can give you mor=
e detailed information about this transaction. For the sharing of the money=
will be shared in the ratio of 50% for me, 40% for you and 10% to cover ou=
r expenses after the deal.

Now the total amount to be transferred is $12.2 million because of the inte=
rest the fund has accumulated for some recent time.

Please keep this absolutely confidential and tell me if you are interested =
but I can assure you 100% risk free as I know how to go about it.

Waiting for your urgent reply and call.

Thanks.
Fredrik Dawie
Pvt: dawiefredrik@gmail.com

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