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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: Henry <bedes@ctr.sk>
Reply-To: file03825@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 04:05:56 +0100
Subject: Greeting my dear!



After much consideration on this matter, I have decided to contact you, for the
Late Mr. Herrejon P. Sánchez, an expatriate working in this country made a huge
fixed deposit to my office (i.e. bank) before his untimely death without any
registered next of kin designate to his account in my office, which has
automatically qualified his deposits for open beneficiary mandate or his
deposit
of (US$7.3M) will be return it to the Government of Benin.
I desire your partnership for us to claim these deposits because the deceased
involved is from your region, which is an added advantage for you, So I seek
your good co-operation to pose as a beneficiary to the deceased by way of
supportive correspondence to my office, which is the bank for us to claim these
huge deposit of his in my office without suspicion. I will guide you
professionally, but secretly on information that may be required of you from my
office in a most discreet manner for us to succeed in this partnership for our
mutual disbursement.
I will take care of the internal authentication aspects of the operation in my
office by adding your name in the deceased’s data profile in my office and
by
this official authentication and addition, there will be no problem whatsoever
because it is believed that it was the deceased’s decision to choose you
before
his death. As the internal comptroller of the bank, I am supposed to declare
the
deceased's deposit for profit sharing by next quarter before this idea came
into
me. But the problem is can I trust you? You tell me.
Please if you are interested; do not hesitate to respond this message for more
details on steps to follow, towards maximizing this great opportunity to our
personal financial benefit. I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Dr. Henry Ogechi.

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