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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: "Anthony O. Numbi" <remittance57@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 08:48:34 +0200
Subject: Greetings.

Greetings,

I am MR.ANTHONY O.NUMBI working with (BANQUE POPULAIRE S.A TOGO) as their
SECRETARIAT GENERAL FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT, as an account officer to late
Engineer ,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 have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds belonging to one
of the customers who bears the same surname with you. Our late customer was
a companion to former Libyan President Muhammar Gaddafi and Gaddafi was
using him to run transactions globally and the bottom line is that our late
customer was assassinated in Libyan. I am his personal account officer with
the account he has with our bank. My purpose of contacting you is that our
late customer deposited funds valued at (US$9.6 million) with (150 kg of
Gold) with our bank before his death without an heir apparent, NEXT OF KIN,
or beneficiary. I will like to present you as the NEXT OF KIN to our late
customer in order for you to lay claim to the aforementioned funds and
gold.

I solicit your cooperation and assistance. For this, I need your urgent
assistance in transferring the (US$9.6 million) with (150 kg of Gold) to
your account within 10 or 14 banking working days. This money has been
dormant for years in his account with our bank without claim. Our bank will
release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer. I
don't want the money to go into the government treasury as an abandoned
fund. So this is the reason why I am contacting you so that our bank can
release the funds and the Gold to you as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased
customer.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it
if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full
details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will
have 50% of the above mentioned sum while 50% will be for me, if you agree
to handle this business with me.I am expecting your urgent response
immediately.

Please be advised that the confidentiality of this transaction is
non-negotiable.

My official email address: remittancef56@gmail.com
Direct line +228 932-66-588

Best Regards,

Mr.Anthony O. Numbi.
SECRETARIAT GENERAL
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE POPULAIRE S.A TOGO
Security and Finance Company.

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