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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: ERIC DOUGLAS <frankegobia777@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ericdiganga@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:50:49 +0100
Subject: Re- Your Payment.

Dear Beneficiary,

I am Eric Douglas, the Manager allocation department Allied Irish bank
UK, my office monitors and controls the affairs of all foreign banks
and financial institutions and intelligence unit in United Kingdom
concerned with foreign payments. I am a signatory to any transfer or
remittance of huge funds moving within banks both on the local and
international levels in line with foreign claim settlement. I wish to
inform you that this letter is not a hoax or scam mail and I urge you
to treat it with the seriousness it deserves.

Conclusively, we discovered list of funds, which could not be
transferred to some nominated accounts abroad originated from ghost
accounts, unclaimed deposits, over-invoiced sum, next of kin, and
lottery organizations. Your Name was among the people expecting the
funds to be transferred into their account, and it is my duty to
recommend the transfer of these surplus funds to Her Majesty's
Government Treasury and Reserve Accounts as unclaimed deposits, based
on the instructions received two days ago from the Foreign Debts
Reconciliation Dept to submit the List of payment reports /
expenditures and audited reports of revenues.

Among several others, I have decided to present you the beneficiary to
an inheritance fund sum of $15 million dollars. And subsequently a
joint business venture, following my idea that we can have a Deal /
agreement and I am going to do this legally with your name the
beneficiary of the inheritance fund $15,000,000.00 million dollars.

Listen the money will be shared as follows after transfer into your
account: 50% for you (Account Owner) 45% for me, while 5% has been
mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be
incurred during the course of this transfer, both locally and
international expenses. To be able to claim the funds, we will be
purporting your name or your company name the original contractor /
beneficiary of the inheritance funds so all procedures for
international transfer shall be strictly followed, we have worked out
all modalities for a swift and risk free transfer, I have planned to
come to your country as soon as the transfer is completed.

1. The sum of $15 million dollars only will be transfer into your
account after the processing all relevant legal documents with your
name the beneficiary, the transfer will be made by telegraphic
Transfer (T/T).

2. This transaction must be kept confidential forever, and all
correspondence will be strictly by email / telephone, for security
purposes.

Most importantly, confidentiality as what I saw as the life wire to
the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be emulated
between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you
will not in anyway expose the content of this transaction to anybody
be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers.

Therefore, l advise you to send the following information below along
with a scanned copy of your international passport or drivers license.

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Your House Address
(3) Your Direct Telephone Number

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Please reply to this email address : ericdiganga@yahoo.co.jp

Yours truly,

Eric Douglas

Foreign Operation Manager.
Allied Irish Bank UK

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