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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: office file <officedf803@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:33:24 +0100
Subject: Can you help???

Dear friend,

Please kindly accept my sincere apologies if my approach is offensive and does not meet your personal ethics.

I am Mr. Oderah C. Morris from Nigeria. I will like to do a very brief business with you, there's a dormant account in my bank with credit balance of (us$6.7m), the owner of this account is a foreigner died long ago, before his death he had a fund deposit in my bank, this fund was meant for urgent cash investment kept in our vault, now as the deceased has no trustee or next of kin to the deposit, i contacted you in strict confidence because you are a foreigner, only foreigner can claiming the funds.

What i need from you is to use your name as next of kin, I will use my position in the bank to do some alteration in the late account holder files and give clearance and onward remission of the funds into your bank account, then we share.

I need your response if you are willing to work with me.

Thanks,

Best Regards,
Mr. Oderah Chimaobim Morris.

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