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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 Hassan <hassan@abdulhassan.site>
Reply-To: abdulhassan00022@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:26:43 +0100
Subject: Confidential



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Dear Friend,

I sincerely apologize for intruding into your privacy, especially by
contacting you through this means for a business transaction of this
magnitude. I got email contact address during my research on a secured site
monster-gulf for a reliable person that will assist me in this transaction
and i believed you will not betray the confidence i have vested in you.
For this reasons, I want our communication to be top secret as I want you to
partner with me in getting back the funds in the tone of (US$4,800,000.00)
that was left behind in a fixed deposit account in our bank by a Saudi
Arabian, citizen and who happens to be a customer of our bank ,late Mr.
Khalil Samhan. And if this will endanger your position and reputation, I
would not have contacted you.


This is safe and beneficial, I am presently the operations manager of our
bank and please do not expose this transaction for any reason, I will give
you more information of myself, our bank and the transaction itself once you
write again.

Late Mr. Khalil Samhan lived and worked in Turkey as an international
businessman. And he deposited in our bank the sum of Four Million, Eight
Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$4,800,000.00) as fixed deposit. This deposit
has long matured and has gone dormant for about 10 years. We have tried to
reach him and could not. His telephone number could not be reached, emails
sent to him kept bouncing back as undelivered and we never got any response
from the letters posted to his residential address.


This issue prompted me to carry out an independent investigation about his
whereabouts since he did not provide a next of kin or beneficiary at the time
he made the deposit with us. I later realized with shock that he died
sometime in December 2009 of heart related illness. His death was not
reported to our bank from that time till this moment and nobody in our bank
is aware of this. However, I have on my own made several inquiries about him
and no information of him was found, which I find weird. My effort to locate
any of his relatives was not successful.


Since this is the issue, I want you to apply as the next of kin of the
deceased to claim the deposit from our bank since both of you came from the
same country. It does not matter whether you knew him or not, it does not
matter if you have any kind of relationship with him or not. I will guide you
all the way to make this claim. This is not a matter of being greedy or
having ugly morals, it is not the best to leave the money to eventually end
up in Government hands while we have the opportunity to live better with it.

This is a risk free transaction,as I am the operations manager of our bank
and the final approval of your application will be done by my department.
Once it is approved, you will have the right to claim the money. And when it
is transferred to you, I will come over to your country to meet with you in
other to share the money which will be into two equal parts (50/50) for each
of us.


With my influence, our bank will tender the necessary documents to
appropriate authorities, like your country's central bank to enable a smooth
transfer of the money into your bank account without any hitch. Everything
will be done legally, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the
copies of the documents relating to the fixed deposit late Mr. Khalil Samhan
made that you will file to back up this claim. All I require now is your
honest cooperation to enable us make this claim and we have to do this within
shortest time possible. If you are willing to do this with me, write back and
I shall inform you on what next to do.


If nothing is done immediately,the money will be returned to the government
treasury as an abandoned fund and we will gain nothing from it.

I am waiting for your consent in other to move to the next step towards
getting the fund.

Sincerely,

Abdul Hassan.

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