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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 Grant From London <markgrantlloydtsb07@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:06:23 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


*Dear My Good Friend ,I wish to introduce myself to you, I am Mark Grant, a
British, also a staff of an offshore bank (The LLoyds Bank Plc) London
office. I am the Managing Director Client Asset Management. I am pleased to
get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal which
I believe will profit the both of us after completion. I contacted you
after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this business
transaction, which I will explain below. The sum of £35,500,000.00 GBP
(Thirty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterling) is
floating unclaimed in my bank as all efforts to get across to the relatives
of our client who deposited the money have hit the stones. There is this
client Mr. Roger Ian Wright a US businessman, founder of a Sao Paulo-based
investment company. On the 22nd of May 2009, Mr. Roger Ian Wright, his wife
and his two children all died in a King Air B350 plane crash at the seaside
resort town of Trancoso, in the state of Bahia. You can find below the
links pertaining to this
accident http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/23/2579118.htm?section=justin
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/23/2579118.htm?section=justin

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