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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: Kelvin Sezay <christbeng229@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ksezy@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 15:55:01 +0800
Subject: Reply

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 Kelvin Sezay 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 fatherduring 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 to claim the money
from the bank where it is right now. And I also want to let you know
according to the Bank Manager, I, 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 will be disclosed to you with the
current statement of account
in my next email.

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 addresses ksezy@yahoo.com OR
bradshaw.fitzhugh@aol.com

Regards as I urgently await hearing from you.

Kelvin Sezay
67 Jason Moyo,
Free Town, Sierra Leon

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