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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: Urban Micro <innocentsimon417@gmail.com>
Reply-To: urbmicro@financier.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:15:06 +0100
Subject: Study carefully and reply ASAP

I have a new email address!You can now email me at:
urbmicro@financier.com - Gabriela Martinez de Aragon 63 St Mary Axe,
London EC3A 8AA, United Kingdom - Tel: +44 7466861054

Dear friend,

I know that this mail will come to you out of the blue as a total
Surprise. Well, I have a business proposal which I know might interest
you. I believe that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid
to transfer the sum of (£4.5M) Four Million Five Hundred Thousand
British Pounds into a foreign bank account. So study the following
account carefully and reply urgently. I am Mr. Marcus Holliday, an
Auditor of Caixa Bank here in London. During the course of our
auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1999 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account. After
a lot of investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank account
died without a beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not
remit this money out it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of
the account is Mr. Kurt Kahle, a foreigner. He died in July 2000 with
his only son Michael and lovely wife and the bank account has no other
beneficiary. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
My investigation proved to me that nobody knows about this account or
anything concerning it. So I want to grab this opportunity, as it is
no harm to anybody. I am here soliciting your assistance as a
foreigner because the Money cannot be approved for anybody here. But
It can be approved to a Foreigner with a valid international passport
or driver's license and foreign bank account because the money at
stake is in British Pound sterling and the former owner of the account
is a foreigner. The management must approve this payment to you if you
have the correct information of this account, which I will give to
you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who
is deeply involved with me in this project. With my influence and the
position of the bank officials, we can Transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival at your
end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign bank account or an
empty account can serve to receive this money. The bank official will
destroy all documents of the transaction immediately this money is
into your nominated bank account. At the conclusion of this business,
you will be given 40% of the total Amount, 55% will be for the bank
official and I, while 5% will be for Expenses both parties might have
incurred during the course of this Transaction. All I require is your
honest and full co-operation to enable us see This deal through. I
guarantee you that this will be executed under a Legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. To
enable us to get the necessary legal documents and approval in your
name for the release of these funds to your designated bank account,
Please do provide the following information as soon as I get the
information below complete the transfer will be made in less than two
weeks.

1. Your Full Names: Elizabeth Danielle Dane
2. Your Full Contact Address:
3. Your Occupation:
4. Date of Birth/Age:
5. Marital Status:
6. Your personal Telephone/Cell Phone and Fax Numbers for effective
communication between us.

Endeavor to reply as soon as possible so that we can be able to start
the process of claim.

Regards,

Mr. Marcus Holliday

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