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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: Debora Diaz <dr.diazde65@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:32:38 +0200
Subject: Investment Partnership

Sir

How are you doing?. My intention of contacting you is to solicit your
assistance for a project, which will be mutually beneficial to both of
us. Though I know my decision to contact you through this medium, is
to a large extent unconventional but the prevailing circumstances
necessitated my action and I know this mail will come as a surprise to
you but from a sincere heart I plead for your assistance.

In a brief introduction, My name is Love Smith from Harare,
Zimbabwe. It is my pleasure communicating with you for the first time
and believing that it will lead to a better relationship between us. I
have an inheritance which was left for me by late father but the bank
said they were instructed by my late father during depositing of the
money, that it is only his business partner that is authorized to
withdraw the money because of my age when he made the agreement with
the bank but now my father is late and was killed by this his partner
who was supposed to withdraw the money and give to me according to my
late father's instruction and because of this, I am afraid of
contacting the man or letting him know I want to withdraw the money
and I will never let him know about the money or call him. Now after
several months of thought about this, I decided to explain the
situation to the Bank Manager and he said I should introduce another
business partner of my late father to withdraw the money for me and
transfer it to his or her country immediately for safety. Base on
this, I check through my late father's business diary where I saw your
profile and decided to contact you for this great assistance since I
have the plan to come and settle down in your country and invest. So
please I want you to stand as my late father's business partner to
enable us claim the money from the bank where it is right now. And I
also want to let you know according to the Bank Manager, that this
will involve a little expense because the Bank Manager said that the
new partner I will introduce, will have to make a change of
beneficiary and as well as obtain the remittance clearance documents
from the Ministries concerned so that all the initial documents
regarding the deposited fund will read his name i.e your name before
remittance to your country. The total amount deposited is
US$70.1million which is in a separate account and another 9million
Euro in a different account but I will like us to concentrate on
claiming and transferring the US$21million to your country first
then after this we can use the same process to transfer the 9 million
Euro.

Note that I resolved to compensate you with 30% of the total sum if
only you can assist me faithfully to claim the money and assist me
also in investing the money in any lucrative business in your country
or anywhere in the world you may deem ok and every expense incurred in
moving the money to your country account, will be refunded to you with
interest.

Further to this, please I will give you more detail and forward all
vital information to you as soon as I hear from you. And the Bank
Manager said I should give you his private telephone number to call
him encase you find it necessary for any reason.

I wait for your response this email address: (love_smith73@yahoo.com)

Regards as I urgently await to hearing from you.

Mr Love Smith

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