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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: "Deepak Khullar" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hndeepkallar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:09:50 -0000
Subject: Re: Business Proposal....

Hello Dear Friend,
 
My name is Deepak Khullar, Group Chief Financial Officer responsible for group finance, investor relations, and strategic sourcing  at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank U.A.E.
 
Read about me here:
https://www.adcb.com/about/corpgovernance/executive-management/deepak-khullar.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
 
Are you related to Dr. Peter.? You have the same last name with him. He is my personal friend, We met in my social club annual end of the year party and I introduced him to my bank where he opened an account some years back and had a fixed deposit valued $30 Million United Dollars  making me the account officer to the account until his death.
 
He was a consultant Research Institute of Neonatal-Perinatal Research, He was the President of CIT Energy where he was responsible for building a broad-based energy platform and delivering financing and advisory products to higher growth, entrepreneurial companies throughout the energy sector.
Sadly Dr. Peter, his wife and their two children were involved among the death victims in the May 27 2006 Earthquake disaster in Java, Indonesia that killed over 5,000 people. He was in Indonesia on a business trip and that was how he met his end.
 
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of Dr.Peter extended relatives but yet this has also proved unsuccessful. To prevent the bank to claim this money I  decided to contact you, I decided to contact you via your email address with hope to get this money out of the bank.  I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by Dr.Peter before they get confiscated since the bank has declared the account unserviceable for it's been more than 9 Years since he last operate this account.
 
I therefore seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $30 Million Dollars can be paid to your account abroad and then you can have 40% of the money for your kind gesture and keep the other 50% for me and 10% for expenses procure, I Will need to travel down to your country for the collection of the 50% balance as soon as this fund get to you.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through, of which we must present a foreigner with an account abroad to enable us to clear this money from the bank.
Your contact information are very necessary, I mean your home address, phone number and your full name.
 
Full Name:
Address:
Mobile Number:
Home Number:
Age:
Occupation:
Sex:
 
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
 
Regards,
Deepak Khullar.
Group Chief Financial Officer
 

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