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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: "<rosinefaisal580@gmail.com>" <rosinefaisal580@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drhassanomar9@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:28:36 +0100
Subject: Urgent message

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From: Manager Commercial bank of Dubai
Branch, UAE DUBAI.

Hello friend,

My name is Dr Hassan Omar, I am the regional manager of the Commercial bank
of Dubai in the City of Dubai UAE. I got your information during my search
through the Internet. I am 58 years of age and married with 2 lovely kids.
It may interest you to hear that I am a man of Peace and don't want a
problem, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the regional manager of the Commercial bank of Dubai; it is my duty to send
in a financial report to my head office here in the city of Dubai at the
end of each year. In the course of the last year 2022 end of year report, I
discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made NINE million five
hundred and fifty thousand dollars [9,550.000.00] which my head office is
not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since placed this fund on
what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money, so
this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist
receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will
have 50/50 of the total fund. Note there is practically no risk involved,
it will be bank to bank transfer or through ATM CARD. All I need from you
is to stand as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit
with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your
designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will
appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response, I will give
you more details on how we can achieve it successfully once you contact me
strictly through my personal email address: (drhassanomar9@gmail.com).

Kind regards,
Dr Hassan Omar

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