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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: "Anna Bossman" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:29:55 +0200
Subject: From Mrs. Anna

Confidential addressed to you,

Despite all our effort with the correspondance bank officials to release your money as approved by African Development Bank, your delay to respond positively has given us serious concern.

However, the new president of African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina at the inaugural meeting with all the regional representatives promised that he will pay attention to the release of those outstanding payments of overdue/delayed contract payment, Inheritance and/or Lottery that were referred to the bank for final release to their original beneficiaries as soon as possible. He also maintained that it is very important that the respective governments themselves create the right environment for the release of these payments.

Based on the above we have started processing payments to be paid to their owners through any bank of their choice of which you are one of such beneficiaries, therefore, you are advised to please contact MR. Joachim Schwarzer, Director for Germany, European Bank for Contract Revalidation and Development (EBRD) immediately on his email: schwarzer.afdb@gmail.com to confirm the above and further instructions.

Please note also that this may be our last attempt on this matter due to time constraints, hence, we expect your full cooperation with the bank and kindly report back to us if you have any problem since we would not tolerate another issue of unpaid/return of fund.

And please Kindly state in brief your experience or ignore this text if you are not one of those affected beneficiaries.

Regards,

Anna Bossman,
Director, Integrity and Anti-corruption Department

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