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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: TMJ TMJ <adttnnom02@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:46:29 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/ Madam


Dear Sir/ Madam

Greetings

My name is Thomas Johnson from African Development Bank South-Africa; I got your email ID from the files of our late client Mr. William Bush American citizen,one of South Africa Government road contractor

he collapsed and dead since seven years ago in our Bank hall while he was depositing money into his account and since past seven years know body has come up for the claim of his USD$18.5million Dollars, Now I decided to contact the email ID which I saw in his files to see if anyone can respond to it as his relative to Inherit the funds because from the files he left know name as Next Of Kin

As the Management of our bank has instructed me to seek for his relatives or the funds will be transfer into the Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds, if you're available to the EmailID you have to contact our Bank only on :( af.developmentbank@accountant.com ) to enable us to transfer the funds across to you.

Best Regard
Thomas Johnson
Accountant of African Development Bank.
+27785175185


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