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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: Jean-Philippe<info@merkatick.com>
Reply-To: privatemessagepvt@naver.com
Date: 25 Jan 2024 00:47:56 -0800
Subject: From: Jean-Philippe

Hello, Good day,

Please bear with me over this unexpected message from me to you
as it is after a very deep considerable thoughts that one has to
take a risk to confide in someone to succeed sometime in life,
therefore I hope with this explanation you will understand better
my purpose of contacting you. Please read carefully and
patiently.

In June 2015, one of our foreign customers made a Fixed deposit
for 36 calendar months, valued at (US$41,200,000.00 ) in our bank
where l am head of accounts department. Upon maturity, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After waiting several months, we sent a reminder and finally
discovered from his contract employers that he and his family
died in a plane crash.

On further investigation, I found out that he died without
leaving a WILL and all attempts to trace extended members of his
family were never successful. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that he did not declare any next of
kin or relation in all his official documents in his Bank Deposit
paperwork at my Bank.

His money (US$41,200,000.00 ) has been floating as unclaimed
since maturity and all efforts to get his relatives have proved
unsuccessful. According to our banking policy, if such money
continues to remain unclaimed, the money will be passed to the
coffers of the Central bank treasury unclaimed bill.

It's been many years now and nobody has shown up for the money.
My proposal to you is that l want you to cooperate with me to
enable us to claim the money so we can both use it for investment
. I will put all the necessary documents together to make you the
next of kin so that the money will be paid to you. I have secured
from the probate court an order of mandamus to locate any family
member of the deceased so that the money can be paid to him or
her, but still no success.

If you agree to cooperate with me, after successful execution of
this deal, we shall share the money in percentage of 50/50. I
assure you that this deal is 100% risk free, you don't have to
fear anything as l am a professional in Real Estate Banking /
Family Wealth If you are interested in engaging in this deal,
please respond in earliest upon reception of this message so I
can confidently explain to you more

Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
Jean-Philippe Salifou

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