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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: ABDEL MARCO <lmenkwa12@gmail.com>
Reply-To: abdelmarco@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:03:15 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

>From Abdelilah Marocaine (Mr.)

25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB,

Good day

I am Mr. Abdelilah Marocaine, Operating Officer and Chartered
accountant of this bank, a Non executive Director of Compass
Consulting Group Holdings, an independent management consulting firm.

With your honest assistant and cooperation, we can finalize this
transaction within 7/14 working days; I need a reliable, honest, and
capable person who will be able to handle this business opportunity
with me because of the need to involve a foreigner.

I am contacting you because of such demand, and I believe you will
work with me to achieve this purpose and will never turn down my
request.

Before the United States of America and Iraqi war, our bank customer
named Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, who was the deputy governor of
Baghdad in Iraq and also a business man made a deposit of
(GBP10,750,000.00) Ten Million, Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand
Pounds Sterling Only in a Bank account number: ABP-LN-685
00/52207712321, here in our bank. But I later discovered that the
Deputy Governor has been assassinated in Baghdad by unknown gun men

.Below is the website about his death as a proof and verification of
his assassination In Baghdad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/
/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm

During my further investigation after hearing of his assassination in
Baghdad, I also discovered that Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his funds with our bank which might be because he embezzled
this funds while in office and was afraid of revealing his political
dignity when opening above account number in our bank until his dead.

My aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your
bank account over there in your country and let me know how much
commission you will receive out of the total funds when transferred
into your oversea bank account?.

You will diligently transfer the balance to me through another bank
account number from another bank I will forward to you as soon as the
funds transferred into your over sea account after deducting your
commission from the whole sum or I will come over to your country to
meet with you one on one for the disbursement of the funds or shall
invested into any lucrative business out there in your country
together..

We are going to process and perfect the transaction legally as bank to
bank procedure has been put in place.

I need your urgent reply through my private E-mail address at
abdelmarco@outlook.com if you are capable to work along with me for
swift actualization, so that I will provide you more details on how to
process the approval of the fund in your name to be release for
instant bank to bank wire transfer into any designated bank account of
your choice without delay.

Please keep this transaction safe and confidential as exposing this
transaction will jeopardize my reputation in this Bank.

I would like to hear from you in no distant time, as soon as you read
this e-mail so that we can proceed accordingly.

Best Regards,

Mr. Abdelilah Marocaine

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