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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: Mr Katsuyuki Yazawa <info@me.com>
Reply-To: mr.katsuyuki.yazawa@outlook.jp
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:51:06 +0200
Subject: ...



--
Good Day, Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr Katsuyuki Yazawa Senior
Managing Director and Auditor of Financial Transfer of the Aichi Bank Ltd (Korea
Japan), I have been in charge of this department for years and to best of my
knowledge. Please this email to you is confidential and if you know that you are
not interested please don't reply back to me.
I am emailing you about a deposit sum of Nineteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand
Dollars a deceased customer left without a recognized next of kin, the late
customer has a personal account with us in our branch and he made this transfer
deposit to us from his other bank in England 7 years ago. I would humbly appeal
that you preserve the subjects of this email personally and keep this
information you come by secretly as a result of this email. After my further
investigation, I discovered that he did not declare any next of kin in his
official papers including the paper work of his bank that made the transfer of
the funds to our bank.
What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the
expiration by next month the funds will revert to the ownership of the England
Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. However, I cannot claim these
funds without presenting someone to stand as a next of kin otherwise our Bank
will convert the funds into the public treasury.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin so that you will be able to receive his
funds and when we have receive the money, I am prepared to share it with you in
half. This is a fair deal without any risk attached either on your part or on my
part as long as we comply with the laws governing the claiming of funds and I am
ready to place you in a position to instruct the Bank to release the deposit to
you as the closest surviving next of kin.

Please if you are interested in continuing with this transaction I request you
to get back to me soon as possible so that we can proceed towards the positive
of this deal but please if you are not interested, I want you to keep this to
yourself only because I am divorced man with two children and I see this as an
opportunity to give them a better life so please do not destroy my chance, if
you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not
destroy me.

My greetings to you.

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