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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: Abdul Wahhab <aw704166@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 22:37:17 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP URGENT

My Dear



I hope that you are well today. I am the Accounting Manager of BOA, With
due respect, I decided to contact you over this business financial
transaction worth the sum of $30 Million dollars in other to entrust this
fund into your bank account.



You should note that this is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our
customer from Indonesian who died along with his entire family on a plane
crash disaster with Lion Airline on October 29, 2018. I was very fortune to
meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned
customer's files in other to submit to the management accordingly for
documentation purposes.



If you are interested, please forward the following information to me as
below:

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{1} Your full Names and address,

{2} Your telephone or mobile numbers..

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Waiting for your urgent reply or confidentially call me on mobile number:
Tel: 00226 64144256



Yours faithfully,

Mr. Abdul Wahhab

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