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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: "Robert Steven Kaplan" <info@usa.net>
Reply-To: robertstevenkaplan11@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:29:55 -0700
Subject: CONTACT US ASAP !!!

Sir/Ma,

We wish to inform you that a power of attorney was forwarded to our office this morning, by two gentlemen regarding your unclaimed fund of $2.5 Million Dollar. One of them is an American citizen named Mr. Robert Porter and the other is Mr. Wilhelm Berg a Swedish citizen.

The document claims these gentlemen to be your authorized representatives, and the power of attorney states that you are already deceased. It further states that your death was due to lung cancer, with your date of death being March 27th, 2019.

They have now submitted a new account to replace the receiving account that was in the original claim of funds. These funds have remained unclaimed for quite some time and the need for resolution is pressing.

Below is the new account they have submitted.

Account Name's : Robert Porter /Wilhelm Berg
Account: 5007-29 438 66
IBAN-nr: SE4150000000050072943866
Bic-kod: ESSESESS
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. (SEB :)
SWEDEN .

In the event that you are in fact still alive, we ask that you confirm your existence by responding to this email. You are to view this as a matter requiring immediately attention and response. We have 48 hr monitoring of all activities within Federal Reserve Bank.

We have contacted the bank in the Sweden asking them to wait for further directives from Federal Reserve Bank, prior to authorizing any withdrawals in any form. Our request is based entirely on our attempt to verify that you are in fact deceased, before money is wrongly disbursed.


Finally, we forewarn you that if we do not hear back from you shortly, we will have to assume that you are in fact deceased and Federal Reserve bank will proceed with release funds to the above newly submitted account.



Sincerely,

Robert Steven Kaplan
robertstevenkaplan11@gmail.com

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