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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: "Mr. A. Ishmale" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <a.ishmale@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 06:24:40 -0700
Subject: PRIVATE MEMO OF MUTUAL BENEFIT !!!

From: MR.ADAMS ISHMALE.
Nat West Bank Plc.
Branch CODE: 0422.
E-mail:
 
Dear Sir,
 
Compliment of the day to you, I am disposed to write to you in my personal capacity with respect to a business, which revolves around my office. Though we have not met before neither have we talked on any mutual business as the case may be, Suffice it to say, I decided to initiate this correspondence on grounds that should you be willing to give me attention, I shall be obliged to transact with you on a profit oriented deal that I must guarantee you is straightforward, 100% risk free and quick in conclusion.
 
My name is Mr. Adams Ishmale, the foreign operations director Nat West Bank PLC. I wish to crave your indulgence to ask for your interest and support in this deal of Draft Payment claims worth US$25.5 Million. It originated from an over-invoiced Diamond Contract by a retired contract tender committee chairman (Now Late).
 
During request to have the contractors’ presence to sign a final contract fund release order in my office to enable telegraphic transfer (T.T) to his foreign bank account, I was meant to understand that he was among the independent foreign contractors trapped and killed in China quake disaster. I could not but conceal this information to myself.
 
You can verify from this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7400167.stm
 
Now having discovered that the fund is from an over-invoiced contract, my view of contacting you for a continuation of the fund claims is to let the fund be diverted to you through Draft payment or Payment through ATM Card, since the claims is at the verge of payment (95% concluded). My office is not aware of this development and nobody has ever shown interest or come for the fund. If not claimed, it will be returned back to bank treasury as net profit.
 
As it stands, I am willing to part with 30% to you for your role, and 7% to Orphanage and 3% to take care of the expenses we might incur since the transaction is almost concluded.
 
Should you give this proposal a consideration, quickly indicate by sending me an email to direct you on how to go about the fund diversion. If you may not be interested, please keep this transaction private, while I seek for someone else I could trust.
 
Thanks for your kind time and understanding.
 
Yours truly,
 
Mr. Adams Ishmale.
Director Foreign Operations Nat West Bank PLC.
 
PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION The information contained in this message, and any attachments, are or may be privileged and/or confidential and protected from disclosure and may also be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient or authorized to receive this information for the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error please delete it from your computer immediately

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