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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: user1@cereson.cn
Reply-To: 20116282@ce.pucmm.edu.do
Date: 29 Nov 2022 23:42:05 -0800
Subject: INFO


Attention:


Good day.



Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this
is by virtue of its nature as

being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude

will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the

end of the day. It may surprise you receiving this letter from
me, since there was no previous

correspondence between us. My Name is Russel, personal Financial
consultant to my Late client,

an expatriate engineer and contractor.


My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me to secure his
funds deposited with the Bank

before he died, to avoid it being confiscated or declared as
unclaimed by the Bank. The fund

value is $76,500,000.00 (seventy Six Million, Five Hundred
Thousand USD), this money was

deposited by my late client before he passed away, on the 16th
April 2014, and up till today his

relatives remained unknown.

I guarantee the success of this transaction in all legal
definitions.
As his consultant/account manager I have contacted the bank for
the claim of the fund and the

Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the
account will be declared

unserviceable and the fund will be retired by the state.Since
this account is secret and there

is no one left to claim the fund that is the reason I am
contacting you. I am actually asking

for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/
beneficiary of my late client’s

fund, so that the fund will be released to you as his next of
kin. All the legal documents to

back up your claim as my client’s next of Kin will be provided.
All I require is your honest

cooperation and absolute confidentiality in order to guarantee
success.



I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be for
expences and Charity Organizations,

while the remaining is shared equally between us. This
transaction is entirely risk free. I will

use my position to guarantee the successful execution of this
transaction. If you are

interested, please contact me,upon your response, I shall then
provide you with more details

that will help you understand more on this transaction.



The intended transaction will be processed under legitimacy by a
lawyer,which will protect me

and you from any violation of law.

If you wish to achieve the goal with me, please kindly get back
to me with your interest for

further explanations and better understanding. Also be kind to
let me know if you are not

interested so that I can further my search to another Citizen
that has the same surname with my

late client.



Kindest Regards

Russel

VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
If you cannot handle this transaction look for someone that is
capable to hadle it, This is

lifetime oppurtinity it is not good to miss it.
If we do not make claim to the funds now, the funds would be
reverted back to the system as

unclaimed estate at the expiration of dormancy period as
approved.
I assure you that this transaction would be handled under due
inheritance procedures and every

necessary legitimate arrangement will be put in place. It also
requires all confidentiality at

this stage and I believe that you are ready to keep this
absolutely discreet until you are able

to claim the funds from the bank. Once the funds are released to
you, it will be shared between

the two of us.

Please send your response indicating readiness to proceed with
this transaction and I would give

you more details, and we shall discuss more details as well as
the procedure to achieve a

successful completion. This is an opportunity of a lifetime and
people achieve it every day.
I await your response
Sincerely,

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