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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: "Mr. Abel Smith" <francisco.bermudez@morelos.gob.mx>
Reply-To: Abel.smith755@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:04:36 +0200
Subject: Hello Friend.

Email: Abel.smith755@hotmail.com
Telephone:+27710685601

Hello

My Name is Abel Smith a top Bank Officer with First Investment Chartered Bank of South Africa and I am in need of a reliable foreigner to carry out this important deal.

An account was opened in my bank by one of my customers a Dutch National from Germany who made a fixed deposit of $11,100,000.00 (Eleven Million, One hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and never show up again and I later discovered that he died with his entire family members on a plane crash that occurred in Libya on the 12th of May 2010 which I can give you a link to that crash if you care.

Since nobody is coming for this fund or knows about this fund I want to present a foreigner like you as next of kin to my late client so we can make the claim and you can contact me if you are interested so I can give you more detailed information about this transaction. For the sharing of the money will be shared in the ratio of 50% for me, 40% for you and 10% to cover our expenses after the deal.

Now the total amount to be transferred is $12.2 million because of the interest the fund has accumulated for some recent time.

Please keep this absolutely confidential and tell me if you are interested but I can assure you 100% risk free as I know how to go about it.

Waiting for your urgent reply and call.

Thanks.
Abel Smith
Pvt: Abel.smith755@hotmail.com

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