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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: "Reents Alfred" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infoinfouk2020@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 01:52:19 +0100
Subject: =Re: Respond as quickly as possible.

Greet to you!

I'm Dr. Reents Heinrich Alfred, Fund Manager UK Fidelity Global Investment and the World Largest Funds Management Company with over Six Trillion British Pounds Capital Investment Funds.

I have contacted you to humbly request your co-operation to transfer the sun of Twenty Two Million Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty One United State Dollars. This money was originally deposited in UK Fidelity for investment by an oil-field service contractor who unfortunately lost his life on the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 Airplane that fell into the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of Monday, June 1, 2009 until his unfortunate death; I was his personal Fund Manager at the UK Fidelity Company.

I have extensively tried to reach any member of his family without any luck. It is almost eight years since his death and no one has come forward to claim his deposit at the UK Fidelity as beneficiary.

Subsequently, I have placed the money into a new private ESCROW account at the company leaving it without a beneficiary. I request your assistance to work together with me as to able us come forward legally to claim the funds as its new beneficiary, and have it transfer to any of your bank account in your country. However, it is very important for me to be very certain that you can be trusted to honestly keep this money until my arrival in your country for disbursement.

Our share is 50% / 50%. Should in case you are interested, Kindly send me your positive response together with your direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction in further details and kindly delete if you are not interested.

Yours' Sincerely
Reents Alfred.
Fund Manager, UK Fidelity Investment Company.

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