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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: "Ms. Christina Ramelow" <ms.christinaramelow0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:40:40 -1200
Subject: Dear Sir or Madam

Dear Sir or Madam

I am Mrs. Mohaiyani binti Shamsudin, who works in ADB (BURKINA FASO)
as a non-independent non-executive Director and President of AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK.
During our last banking audits, we discovered that an account
abandoned belongs to one of our deceased foreign clients, the Mr. Wang
Jian, co-founder and co-chair of the HNA Group, a conglomerate Chinese
with important real estate properties throughout the US UU. in a
accident during a business trip in France on Tuesday.

Go to this link:
https://observer.com/2018/07/wang-jian-hna-founder-dies-tragic-fall/

I am writing to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $
15,000,000.00 (fifteen million United States dollars) at its counts as
Wang Jian's last foreign business partner, which I plan use the fund
to invest in public benefit as follows

1. Establish an orphanage home to help orphaned children.
2. Build a hospital to help the poor.
3. Build an asylum for the elderly and homeless.

Meanwhile, before contacting you, I did an investigation staff to
locate one of the relatives of the late Mr. Wang Jian who knows the
account, but I didn't succeed. However, I took this decision to
support orphans and less privileged children with this fund, because I
don't want this fund transferred to our Account of Government treasury
as unclaimed fund. I am willing to offer you the 40% of the fund for
your support and assistant to transfer the fund to your account.

More detailed information will be sent to the disaggregation
explaining how The fund will be transferred to you. Please continue to
achieve the purpose.

Waiting for your urgent response.
attentively
Ms. Mohaiyani Binti Shamsudin.

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