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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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Fraud email example:

From: Dan Hendricks <info@apicalls.co>
Reply-To: d.hendricks2020@yandex.com
Date: 09 Jan 2020 14:15:02 -0800
Subject: AW: Business / Investment proposal Dated 9th January 2020

Date: 9th Jan, 2020
Mailto: info@cannabislegal.de


Esteemed Compliments,


I anticipate that you read this mail quickly and let me know your
opinion or willingness on this classified information that I will
release to you. Firstly, I am a happily married man with 3 kids
and therefore I would not want to jeopardize this opportunity to
change my financial status that will give my family a secured
future.

I am Mr. Daniel Hendricks , the Branch Manager of an Investment
Bank in Istanbul I am 46 years of age. It may interest you to
hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, but I don't
know how you will feel about this, but I am telling you that this
is real and you are not going to regret after doing this
transaction with me .

I only hope we can assist each other. But if you don't want this
business offer kindly forget it.
I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of
us, as the Branch Manager of Bank here in Istanbul it is my
duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the city
of Istanbul at the end of each year. On the course of the last
two years 2017 end of the year report, I discovered that my
branch in which I am the Manager made eighteen Million Seven
Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars [$18,750.000.00]
which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of,
Nor must they know that I am involved in this transaction.


I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT
without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the Bank I cannot be directly connected to this
money, so this is why i have to contact you for us to work so
that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for
us to SHARE, Meanwhile you will have 35% of the total fund and 5%
for expenses incurred during the process of the transaction and
60% for me Note there are practically no risk involved, it will
be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim
as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with
our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your
designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it
very much. As soon as I receive your kind response, I will give
you details on how we can achieve it successfully.

Please contact me via this E-mail (d.hendricks2020@yandex.com)
for more details.

Best Regards,

Mr.Daniel Hendricks

Branch Manager,

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