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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mr. Bernard Arthur <admin@investec.com>
Reply-To: Mr. Bernard Arthur <bernard.arthur@aol.com>
Date: 12 May 2020 19:02:06 -0700
Subject: From: Mr. Bernard Arthur

From :Mr. Bernard KArthur

Compliments of the day, I am contacting you for a mutual beneficial business with believe you will not betray me at the end. I am Mr. Bernard Arthur; Executive Director Investec Bank Asset Management. During the recent audition of bank accounts and services of our bank; I discovered a non-resident bank account here in 2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QP England, which have not been operated for a long time. After a discrete inquiry, I found out that the owner of this account was a United States citizen Mr. David Anderson, a business man who died with his family in Atlasjet Flight 4203 crash On November 30, 2007. Until now, nobody knows about his bank account with Investec Bank. This account holds (17,500,000.00 GBP) Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling only.

I contact you as a foreigner; in order to arrange with you for the transfer of this money out from the account, before our next audition of bank accounts because If the bank management find out that this account has been latent for these long, it will be frozen and the money will be returned to the bank treasury, as unclaimed public funds. Therefore I want you to stand as the "Foreign Beneficiary". I need your full co-operation to make this transaction work out perfectly because the bank management is ready to approve the immediate payment to whoever that would be presented as the beneficiary to this money. A perfect transfer strategy will be put in place in your name legally, so that nobody will suspect your claims.

With my positions and influence here in the bank; this money will be re-profiled to your favor and transferred to any overseas bank account/s you will nominate, but with an assurance from you that this money will remain safe in your custody pending my arrival to join you for securing my share. For your involvement in this deal, you will receive 40% of the total amount. Kindly consider this offer immediately and send me your information as follows;

1, Your Full Names,
2, your Contact address/country of residence,
3, your direct Mobile phone Number
4, your date of Birth
5, Your Occupation

To my private email account: bernard.arthur@aol.com to start re-profiling of the fund in your name as the heir beneficiary. I will count on your sense of secrecy and confidentiality, in order to avoid risky exposure, considering the sensitivity and magnitude of this project.

I am anxiously looking forward to your urgent response, so we can start off.

Best Regards,

Mr. Bernard Arthur
Executive Director
Investec Bank Asset Management

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