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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- brucecruz2012@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: bruce cruz <brucecruz2012@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 06:54:50 -0800
Subject: Your urgent response is needed!

Attention! Attention!! Attention!!!

I am pleased to introduce myself to you. My name is Bruce Cruz and I am
currently the Group Head for internal audit of banks (UCB) Cambodia.

Do you know that for the past 10 years now more than USD$150 Million has
being diverted and stolen by some greedy and corrupt politicians by the
help of their influential and powerful colleagues who has help them to
launder and transfer this fund through our bank to the Overseas bank? This
fund were derived from the sales of Gold and Crude oil and the fund was
meant to be used for the development of the Asian nations and the continent
at large.

As a banker working in the Foreign Remittance Department, I want you to
know that I have acted as the Account Officer to most of this politicians,
so I have being involved and participated in the many financial transfer
transaction done by this corrupt politicians several times to the Overseas.
When I now discovered that this politicians were using me to achieve their
aims by transferring this huge amount of fund through our bank to the
Overseas, I decided to use this opportunity as a top bank official to
divert the sum of US$5,6Million to an Escrow dormant Account belonging to a
dead customer in the bank and then clean up the records and files
concerning this US$5,600,000.00 Million from our Bank's Computerized
Database Processing Financial Deposit so that there will be no trace of
this fund. Now the reason why I have contacting you is this; the bank's
management are now anxious and waiting for the heir to claim the
amount(US$5,6Million) because the bank has benefited and made lot of
profits from this fund for almost six years. I need you as a trustworthy
and honest foreign partner that I will present to the bank as the
beneficiary to the deceased customer having this said fund (US$5,6M)

Anyhow, This is just a tip of the iceberg and the full details will be
giving to you base on your interest and your reply to cooperate fully.
There is no risk involve, only risk is you exposing the secret of the deal
to others.

I greatly appreciate your time in reading through the details of this
proposal. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me
using the same email address at brucecruz2012@gmail.com

Looking forward for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Bruce Cruz

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