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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: "Dr Schuppe Artur " <schuppeartur2045@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:35:24 -0700
Subject: Confidential!!!


Hello,

I'm Dr Schuppe, Artur , the Deputy Minister of Finance. We wish to urgently=
confirm from you if actually you know one Mr. Gene Duncan who claims to be=
your business associate/partner.

Kindly reconfirm this application put in by Mr. Gene Duncan - he submitted =
the under-listed bank account information supposedly sent by you to receive=
the funds on your behalf.

The bank information he applied with are stated thus:

Account Name: Mr. Gene A. Duncan
Bank name: Global Federal Credit Union
Bank address: 1520 West Third Avenue Spokane, WA 99220
Account Number: 789170461820
Routing Number: 325180595

The said Mr. Gene Duncan is claiming to this office that you are dead and=
have Instructed that all relevant documentation/Information regarding your=
Payment/Transfer, be changed to him as the beneficiary of the payment shor=
t-listed among the beneficiaries entitled to receive their payment.

For your Information, this Government has approved the total amount of EIGH=
T MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor,=
prior to the Federal Government instructions/mandate to offset all outstan=
ding payments to the various legal beneficiaries around the world and your =
payment file was affected. We need to confirm from you if it's really true =
that you are dead as mentioned by your Associate.

You should note that, if we do not hear from you, we automatically assume t=
hat you are actually dead and the information passed to us by Mr. Gene Dunc=
an is correct. Hence, you are hereby requested to reply to this Email immed=
iately for confirmation, before we proceed with this payment and for us to =
know the true position of things with you so that we won't make any mistake=
s/errors in remitting your out-standing payment to a wrong person/account.

Lastly, you are advised to reply back to this email and reconfirm the detai=
ls of this message if truly you're alive.

Your quick response will help us a lot.


Yours, Sincerely,
Dr Schuppe, Artur
Deputy Minister of Finance

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