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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: Mr Lawrence Philip <kodjojonh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: philiplawrence58@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:18:24 +0100
Subject: re

Good Day,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending you this email without
your consent. I believe you are a highly respected personality,
considering the fact that I sourced your email from the peoples search
database on the web during my discrete search for a foreign partner
who can assist me in taking this business to it success.Though, I do
not know to what extent you are familiar with events. I have a
proposal for you.This however is not mandatory nor will I in any
manner compel you to honor against your will, but I hope you will read
on and consider the value I offer.

My name is Mr Lawrence Philip from Togo. It's Just my urgent need for
a foreign partner that led to my contacting you about this
transaction. I am a banker by profession and currently holding the
post of a chief auditor in our Bank.I have the opportunity of
transferring an unclaimed funds US$17,000,000.00 Seventeen Million
Dollars) belonging to one of our customer who died in an
accident,having no one coming up to claim his funds and if left
unclaimed will be transferred to the government treasury by the bank.

Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where we can facilitate
the transfer of this fund and I promising 40% for you as your
percentage once the fund transferred to your bank account.If you agree
to my business proposal, then further details of the transfer will be
forwarded to you as soon as I receive your mail.

Please I advice you to kindly contact me at my private
email(philiplawrence58@gmail.com) Best regards,
Mr Lawrence Philip.

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