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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: =?UTF-8?Q?Robert_Wolf?= <noreply@messages.whitehouse.gov>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 21:51:37 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Respond_Urgently?=

Dr. Robert Wolf
1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC

Dear Friend.

I am Dr. Robert Wolf from Pennsylvania Avenue, North West. Washington DC, here in America. I work for UBS Investment Bank America. I am writing you about a business proposal that will be of an immense benefit to both of us. As a new Chairman, UBS Americas, President, UBS Investment Bank. I discovered an abandoned sum of $57,478,645 (Fifty Seven Million, Four hundred and Seventy Eight thousand, Six hundred and Forty Five United State Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign deceased customer, a billionaire Business Man (Late Mr. Steve Allen) who was a victim of a car crash , resulting to his death and his family members. Steve was
78-years-old. Also in the crash was with his wife, and their son and his daughter-in-law.

The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geographical nature of where you live, particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction and the confidentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that. I personally have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 10 month now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin/Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $57,478,645 (Fifty Seven Million, Four hundred and Seventy Eight thousand, Six hundred and Forty Five United State Dollars) can be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim we
are making. All I need to do is to fill in your names to the documents and legalize it in the court here to prove you as the legitimate beneficiary. All I require now is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please provide me the following: as we have 7 days to run it through. This is very URGENT PLEASE.
1. Full Name:
2. Your Contact Address:
3. Your Mobile Number:
4. Your Age:
5. Sex:

Having gone through a methodical search, I decided to contact you hoping that you will find this proposal interesting. On your confirmation of this message and
indicating your interest will furnish you with more information. Endeavor to let me know your decision rather than keep me waiting.

Regards,
Dr. Robert Wolf
President
UBS Americas
E: RobertWolfOS@protonmail.com

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