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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. Brent Ntombi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <centrenotification@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:11:12 -0400
Subject: Top of the day to you

Greetings to you,
 
 
I am Mr. Brent Ntombi, A Personal Accountant to Late Engineer Phillip, a citizen of your country, who used to work with French oil company that ranks as one of the world’s major petroleum corporations, I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before Government Treasury Department gets them confiscated or declare unserviceable by Deutsche Bank AG management. where the deceased have an account valued at about fifteen Million, three hundred and forty five thousand U.S dollars (USD 15, 345,000.00). The bank has issued out a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated with in the next few days. I need your cooperation and honesty to move the aformentioned amount into any trusted account within your maximal control, this venture is 100% risk free.
 
 
If interested, I'd like you to kindly respond with your contact details for more instructions & full info about this venture and or better still you can reach me out via text message only at +1 (623) 396-5531 with proper introduction regarding this proposal.
 
 
Sincerely,
Mr. Brent Ntombi

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