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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: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA <sarah@sec-nigeria.sg.tf>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 22:51:29 -0700
Subject: YOU AS NEXT OF KIN

Good Day to You,

I am Matt Iwe, a Manager of Foreign Account Department in a bank. I
have a very urgent and confidential business proposition of mutual
benefit. On 6th of March 2001, a customer, (late) William J., an
American national and oil merchant/contractor with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, deposited, a valued amount of US$32Million in
our branch and upon maturity, our bank sent a routine notification to
his forwarded address but got no response. After a month, we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from
his contract employers NNPC that late William J. lost his life to the
ghastly terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston
to Los Angeles, which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade
Center (WTC) with 86 people on board. All occupant of the Aeroplane
unfortunately lost their lives.

On further Investigation, I discovered that late William J. till his
death nineteen years ago did not declare a next of kin in all his
official
documents, neither did he leave a WILL. The US$32Million is floating
in the bank and no one will come forward to claim it. According to
Nigerian law, if nobody applies to claim the asset within twenty
years, the ownership of the estate will be reverted to the Federal
Government of Nigeria, hence, my proposal that you as a foreigner
stand in as the next of kin of late Williams J.. It is simple; all I
require is your honesty and co-operation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that the transaction will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of
the law.

I will want you to send to me on your return email the following information.

1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone number.



And let us consider our ratio of sharing to be 50:50, thus; I as the
originator of the fund will get 50% and YOU as Manager of the fund
will as well get 50% of the transferable fund.

Send your reply to this email <jemm1951@outlook.com> as soon as you
get this mail and decide to work with me on this project to enable us
discuss on the modalities for success of this transaction.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding. I await for
your kind response.

Best regards.

Matt Iwe.

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