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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hannettm23487@outlook.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- This email message is a next of kin scam.
Fraud email example:
From: info@imo.org
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 07:42:09 +0300
Subject: INTERNATIONAL FUND RECOVERY REPORT
This is to officially inform you that during our Investigation with the help of The U.S. Financial Regulatory System [AFRS] and our other sister financial Intelligence Monitoring Network we discovered an outstanding fund of £7.97 Million pound sterling in a reserved account here in ECO bank PLC, Ghana. it was also learnt that this cash sum belongs a late German property magnate Mr. Andreas Schranner, our independent source revealed that this fund is placed in a suspense account here meant for the purpose of purchasing gold bar and gold dust products for industrial use.
We then tried all possible contact link to his family members but found out that they were all killed during a plane crash about 17 years ago in the AF4590 plane crash . PLEASE VISIT THIS SITE BELOW AND SEE THE DETAILS OF THE PLANE CRASH, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm .
Today i seek your consent to present you as his next of kin because we find your first name a palpable next of kin from what we have here in our record of late Mr. Andreas Schranner. I am contacting you now to help us get the fund transferred to your country and be rest assured that your interest and that of our contacts in the bank will be well protected by me and my team of investigators as we go about this foreign cash transfer transaction into your account oversea. It is also important i let you know that we shall share this money in the ratio of 35% / 55% when transferred to your account is completed and i will then take care of my inside sources from my 55%. Please note that the remainder of 10% in this transaction is to be used to secure what ever challenges we might have before the completion of this transaction which i am hoping will not exceed 7 working days if you cooperate in all sincerity and confidence, so do contact me for further information using this reply to email {HannettM23487@outlook.com} thank you.
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