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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: Daniel <sauer-erika@t-online.de>
Reply-To: "mailoffice2@mail.com" <mailoffice2@mail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:48:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Esteemed Compliments.




Esteemed Compliments.

I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your opinion
or willingness on this classified information that I will release to you.
Firstly, I am a happily married man with 3 kids and therefore I would not
want to jeopardize this opportunity to change my financial status that will
give my family a secured future.

I am Mr. Daniel Hendricks, The Branch Manager of the Ziraat Bankasi Bank
Istanbul.I am 46 years of age. It may interest you to hear that I'm a man
of PEACE and don't want problems, This is real and you won't regret after
doing this transaction with me. I only hope we can assist each other, If
you don't want this business offer kindly forget it.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the Branch Manager of Ziraat Bankasi Istanbul it is my duty to send in a
financial report to my head office in the capital city Istanbul at the end
of each year, On the course of the last two years 2018 end of the year
report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the Manager made Eight
Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars
[$8,750.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be
aware of, Nor must they know that I am involved in this transaction.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary. As an officer of the Bank I cannot be directly connected to
this money, so this is why I have to contacting you for us to work so that
you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE,
Meanwhile you will have 50% of the total fund. Note there are practically
no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is
to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit
with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your
designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.
As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give you details on how we
can achieve it successfully.

Best Regards,
Mr.Daniel Hendricks.




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