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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: Festus <lklkjhhhg@gmail.com>
Reply-To: office12cc@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:21:27 -0700
Subject: Hello

My name is Festus Odimegwu, Presently working as Chief Executive Manager,
Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance department with the Bank here
in Nigeria. I know that this information through your email will come to
you as a surprise as we never met before, because of high rate of
fraudulent activities in the internet i will be happy to work this deal out
with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account also if you are
capable to keep TOP SECRET.

I need strong Assurance that you will never let me down, if I transfer this
money to your account. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust
and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of
our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of
Thirty Two Million United State Dollars ($32,000,000.00) to your
account.


The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 13 years in our Bank here without
anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest
person to our deceased customer from Switzerland Zurich, Mr.Richard Gabriel
(the owner of the account) who died along with his supposed next of kin in
air crash since on 31st July 2000. The Bank will release the fund to you as
the nearest person to the deceased customer

I would respectfully request that you treat the content of this letter as
privileged and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a
result of this correspondence. Contact me immediately for more information
and to begin the normal process of redeeming the fund before the bank is
compelled by law to hand over the money to the government.

I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of Late Mr.
Richard Gabriel This is simple. All I require is your honest and
co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your return email the
following information for the transfer in your
favor.


01) Name of Beneficiary:
02) Address:
03) Tel:
04) Fax:
05) Nationality:
06) Purpose of Payment:
07) Expected Amount:
08) Bank Name:
09) Bank Address:
10) Account No:
11) Routing No:
12) Account Name:
13) Marital Status:
14) Nature of Work
15) Age:
16) Sex:

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated
Thus;
1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable
Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable
Fund.
I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible Very Important:

Yours sincerely.
Odimegwu Festus
The Manager,
Operating Officer
Union Bank Nigeria Plc
Lagos Nigeria.

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