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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: David Chase <davidchasemr@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 18:40:11 +0000
Subject: DEAR FRIEND


Dear Friend,

I am Mr. David Chase of Banque Sahélo-Saharienne pour l'Investissement et le Commerce(BSIC BANK). On July 6, 2010 , our client Mr. Florent Mill, a businessman, made a numbered fixed deposit for 6 (six) calendar years, with a value of US$7.5m only in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him and no response came from him. Another notification was sent in October 2016 and still no response came from him. The Bank officially sent two-man delegate to his residence in France were he reside only to find out that the business mogul and his family perished in an accident.

After further investigations, it was also discovered that Mr. Florent Mill did not declare any next of kin in his official papers, including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he visited my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Nine million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.

According to the laws of my country, at the expiration of Six years (6 years) the funds will revert to the ownership of Togo Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Mr. Florent Mill to enable you receive the funds. Let us put heads together to see how we can transfer these funds out of Togo and use it judiciously.

I will like to present you as the next of kin to the deceased to enable our organisation transfer the money to you.Since it is not compulsory that the Next-of-Kin must be a blood relation to the deceased nor the same nationality, hence I contacted you, be informed that a Next-of-Kin can be anybody, friends or organization etc. At the end of the transaction, you will be compensated with 30% of the money. This transaction is 100% risk free but should be kept secret and confidential due to my position in the bank.

I will give you more details about the transaction when I received your affirmative response. You can contact my confidential Barrister Bar.Wallace Hope at his secured E-mail address: wallaceghope@hotmail.com

Note that sharing percentage is negotiable by the two parties. Contact my Lawyer on the email address with your full names, address, fax and telephone number to wallaceghope@yahoo.com if you are interested and more details will be provided to you about the Project.

Sincerely,
Mr. David Chase
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