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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "hello" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Reemhashimi@minister.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 12:00:41 -0000
Subject: Hello friend

Good day,

My name is Reem E. Hashimy, the Emirates Minister of State and Managing Director of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) World Expo 2020 Committee.

I am writing you to manage my funds I received as gratification from various foreign companies I assisted during the Dubai World Expo 2020 bidding exercise.

The amount is $44,762,906.00 United States dollars.The cumulative deposit were given as an expression of appreciation from the various foreign companies whose applications received approval to participate in the in-coming Dubai Expo 2020. But I cannot directly receive the gratifications because of my sensitive status and various restrictions on my personal life as a married Muslin lady.

For this reason, an agreement was reached with a financial consulting firm to receive the various financial gifts into an open beneficiary account with a financial institution where it will be possible to instruct transfer of right of ownership on the fund to a third party for investment purpose which is the reason I am contacting you to receive and manage the fund as my investment partner.

The detail will be discuss on your indication of interest with capacity to manage the fund.

Wishing you the best in the year.

Reem.

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