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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: Federica Scondanibbio <director@mff.ind.br>
Reply-To: info@accessprivatebankukltd.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:33:47 -0300
Subject: Very important notice



--
Good day,


My name is Mr. Federica Scondanibbio, the manager of bill and exchange
at the foreign remittance department of a bank here in my country. I am
writing to you in respect of a desperate search for a reliable partner
to champion this transaction. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of USD$48,000,000.00 (Forty Eight Million United States
Dollars Only). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family in an automobile crash
in 2016.


The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remains
Unclaimed after 8 years, the money will be transferred into the
government treasury as unclaimed funds. The request of a foreigner as
next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a national of this country cannot stand as next of
kin to a foreigner.

In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring
this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund. Our
sharing ratio will be 50% for you and 50% for me. The transaction would
be smoothly and legally carried out hence you share the same relative's
name with our deceased customer.


Should you be interested to work with me on this project? Kindly get
back to me for more information and Guidelines.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION: if you do not believe this is true and not
willing to support or follow my directives, do not BOTHER RESPONDING
BACK.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Federica Scondanibbio

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