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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Matthew" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <huaminh41@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:17:01 -0700
Subject: Re: Most Urgent

My name is Matthew Weakly, I am an internal financial auditor with World Bank Group, recently I was assigned to audit and investigate few outstanding security deposit funds in various financial facilities under the past administrative office of the world bank by the present administrative office of the world bank president "President Jim Yong Kim", to unfold the circumstances behind unclaimed funds. I discovered an unclaimed funds in millions of euros deposited in one of the facilities during the US and Iraq conflict. I carried out a personal investigation that took me months to trace the history of the deposit, I found out the deposit was made by a soldier from one of the military infantries in Iraq who died in an acting service since then this funds have been in the facility waiting for the next of kin to claim the funds.

The funds that I discovered has no next of kin declared because during the conflict, a lot of transactions transpired between Iraq government and US & British soldiers, many died in the conflict including Saddam Husseins and its aides, this conflict went on for years and millions of Dollars and Euros were recovered from different location in Iraq, the funds were home,tunnel,underground and vault banked, money found were confiscated by world bank organization and the funds not found was either already discovered by soldiers in Iraq or other interested parties, the funds discovered by soldiers were transported out of Iraq to foreign financial facilities and were deposited with little documentations; soldiers hoping to claim the funds after their mission in Iraq but they never lived to see this day after all they went through in Iraq, a lot of the soldiers family are now living in pains with nothing left behind to them.

I wished I could locate the family of the soldier that made this deposit I discovered but no documentation to work on, I cannot lay claim to this funds either because I am a World Bank personal, part of my investigation shows that I can present a beneficiary has a assignor to claim this funds. I am contacting you to involve you in this venture and act as the assignor to claim this funds, I am ready to provide you the necessary information's and documents needed to claim this funds if you are interested?.

Anxiously anticipating your prompt and affirmative response through this email: michaelswan1975@gmail.com

Yours sincerely,
Michael Weakly
Financial Auditor (WBG)

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