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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. Andre Wotti" <info@andre.org>
Reply-To: mrandrewotti44@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:09:49 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

FROM; Mr, Andre Wotti
International Remittance department,
Manager,First Bank Plc.
57/58, Marina street,
Lagos Nigeria.


Attention Sir/Madam

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due
to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed
of it's swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am
Mr, Andre Wotti, a Manager at the First bank Plc, Lagos. I came to know
of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to
handle a very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of
a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.

A foreigner, Late Engineer William Adams, an oil Merchant /contractor
with the federal Government of Nigeria ,until his sudden death three
years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at First Bank
Plc , Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$35.5M (Thirty-Five
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank
know unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available
foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in
Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the First Bank Plc to get
in touch with any of late Engr. William Adams's next of kin (he had
no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of
our chairman, board of directors, Retired Major General Kalu Uke
Kalu, that an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMED " and
then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and
Ammunition which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and
the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development , myself and some of my
trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have
you stand as late Engr.WILLIAMS Adams next of kin so that the fund,US
D$35.5M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into
your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and
proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and
we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be
30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while
the rest would be for me and my colleagues for our involvement and we
wish to invest our shares in real estate /oil
business in country, under your supervision.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of
the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then
kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your
most confidential data information below; so that i can
forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

1) Your full name:
2) Your Address:
3) Your telephone number:
4) Your profession:
5) Bank Name:
6) Account Name:
7) Bank Address:
8) Account Number:
9) Routing Number:
(10) Photo Id Attached:

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Regards.

Mr, Andre Wotti.
Manager,First Bank Plc.
Lagos Nigeria.
Email;mrandrewotti44@gmail.com

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