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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: carlp4743@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:18:09 +0000
Subject: Treat As Urgent

Untitled form

To fill it in, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu4QHZupOxK36BVYrbyJIjZNwOAQPYyx7ecH5WoUR3pEXscg/viewform?vc
FROM THE DESK OF MR CARL
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
MY PRIVATE E-MAIL carlpatrick753@gmail.com

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. However after
series of petition was received by this present regime from foreign
contractors and inability of the BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)to fulfill their
obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors, in conjunction with
the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry out a careful and
comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and to
effect payments immediately.

During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$18.6M (Eighteen Million Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane Crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't
want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 50% would be for me,
while 10% will be for expenses occurred during the transaction. There after
I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of
the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will
only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and
move the fund into your account without any delay and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for
the transfer.

You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will
send you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased customer and you should contact me through this
my private e-mail address:carlpatrick753@gmail.com

Yours faithfully.
MR CARL PATRICK
Bill & Exchange Manager,
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)


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