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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: "Prof. Michel Konczaty" <michel.konczaty@bnpparibas.com>
Reply-To: contact@michelkonczaty.com
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:30:26 -0400
Subject: My Last Email, I am still waiting for your response

Good Morning,

My sincere apologies if the content of this mail doesn't meet your
personal quirks but if you know the extend I went to get your contact
you will appreciate the information I wish to share with you in this
message. In the year 2003 the subject matter, a billionaire from your
country who share the same family name with you came to our bank to
engage in business discussions with a huge financial portfolio worth
£20.7 millions pounds which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.
We turned the funds around various opportunities and made attractive
margins for our first year of operation which was repeated the following
year until the year 2005 when he requested that the funds be liquidated
for onward transfer. I undertook all the processes and had the assets
liquidated, and surprisingly that was the last time we heard from him.
Both the bank and myself did everything humanly possible to track him
down all to no avail, and since he listed no next-of-kin in his Know
Your Customer (KYC) form which is peculiar with high profile investors,
we had no one to contact. Those of us who are familiar with investment
banking procedures, knows that those who patronize our services prefers
some level of privacy and detachment from conventional banking. They
prefer to operate their accounts with pins and codes. It was few years
after his surprise disappearance that I stumbled upon the Tuesday, 16th
of August 2005 Venezuela plane crash manifest where he perished with 152
others. There is right now, a huge financial portfolio worth £20.7
millions pounds plus accrued interest abandoned in our bank all these
year and if I sit and do nothing, the funds will sooner than expected
revert back into our treasury as unclaimed. This is why I'm contacting
you. All that needs to be done is for me to from the bank data base
insert your name into his Client Information Sheet (CIS) and have you
listed as the successor and/or collateral heir to the abandoned estate,
and once your name appears in his file as the heir, the funds
automatically becomes yours by right of inheritance. Then we follow
legally our bank inheritance claim procedures, secured the funds and
share it equally afterward. There is no risk what-so-ever attached
because it is simply an inheritance. I have evaluated the entire process
with my vast of experience and the only hitches I envisage here is from
you, refusing to work with me, alerting my bank or mistaking this
project for a hoax or scam otherwise the funds is there for an easy pick
for us. I await your response.


Thank You
Yours Sincerely
Prof. Michel Konczaty
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
BNP Paribas, Paris France

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