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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: "Faith.C.Appiah" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:28:42 -0700
Subject: Urgent & Confidential

From: Faith Appiah
Telf: +44-745-202-77-20
WhatsApp: +44-745-202-77-20
Email: faith.c.appiah@gmail.com

Attention
I am Mrs. Faith Appiah from United Kingdom , married to Mr. Thompson Appiah from South Africa for seven years now, we have two kids, I am the manager of bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of a BANK here in UK.. I have a business proposal which I believe that will be a very Good opportunity for both of us. So I decided to contact you on this business opportunity in our bank, the business is this: I discovered an abandoned sum of 8.7m US dollars ( Eight million, seven hundred thousand united states dollars) in our safety deposit vault that belongs to one of our foreign customer, Mr Benjamin Webber Who died along with his entire family on 26th of November 2012 in a ghastly motor accident along Barcelona express way. Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money, because the management cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines.

Since you are a foreigner, you can easily make this deal with me. I have all the secret information of this deposit which will help you to claim this money as the next of kin to the deceased. Therefore, upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money to go into the Bank’s treasury as unclaimed funds or declared to the UK government. Once this is done, the government of UK will confiscate the funds, which is not good for both of us, instead its better for us to do the deal and map out something for charity from the money and share the rest. I agreed that 40 % of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to your acceptance to do this business with me, while 60 % would be for me and my family. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the n
ext of kin of the decease

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is a hitch-free that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made perfectly. At this moment you should feel free to contact me as soon as you receive this letter. You should understand that this should be kept very confidential, let it be between you, me and my husband only. This is the only way we can achieve success. I will level the whole arrangement here in the bank for the transfer to be approved immediately. Please take note my husband is the only one I have discussed this business with and we both agreed to do this business with you. He answers my phone anytime I am at work or not around my phone for the security of this business, Please feel free to call my husband on the above number, because of my position in the Bank, my phone may be monitored, so I think it is better to be discussing with my husband regularly, while I will be arranging everything in the bank for smooth
transaction. Please send

Best regards
Faith Appiah

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