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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: Michel Konczaty <michelkonczaty00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: michelkonczaty101@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:35:45 +0000
Subject: URGENT REQUEST

Good Morning,

Please this message is about a Billionaire from your country who I
presume to be your relative because of the similarities in your last
names.He happened to be one of the personalities I have worked with
while he was an investor with our bank. In 2003 the subject matter
came to our bank to engage in business discussions with a financial
portfolio worth £20.7 million which he wished to have us turn over
(invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case. We
turned the money around in various opportunities and made attractive
margins for our first years of operation. In mid 2005, he asked that
the money be liquidated for onward transfer because he needed to make
an urgent investment requiring cash payments.I undertook all the
processes and have the fund liquidated, and that was the last time we
heard from him. I did everything humanly possible and took all the
official steps to track him down or locate any of his family members
all to no avail,and since he listed no next of kin in his bio-data
form, I have no one to actually contact. It was few years after his
surprise disappearance that I stumbled upon the Venezuela plane crash
manifest where I discovered he has died in the aforementioned plane
crash on Tuesday, 16th of August 2005. There is £20.7 Million plus the
accrued interest abandoned in our bank all these years, and now my
worst night-mare is about to happen as my bank management is now
planning to revert the funds back into our treasury as unclaimed and
abandoned monies.

What needs to be done now is for me to immediately insert your name
from our system into his file and make you his rightful and legal
heir. Once that is done the money automatically becomes yours by
inheritance for us to grab and share. I am going to guide you with
information, I mean furnish you with all the privileged relevant
documents that will be required to prove your right to the estate, and
have the funds released to you as the rightful and legal heir.

I am a family man, and this is a chance to provide them with new
opportunities. There is no risk involved as it is simply an
inheritance. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well
worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only hitches I
foresee here is from you, refusing to work with me and alerting my
bank or mistake this proposal for a hoax, scam or junk otherwise
wealth is just around the corner for you and I to grab and share.

Remain blessed as I await your response via this email


Thank You.

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. Michel Konczaty
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
BNP Paribas, Paris France
Tel: (33) 7 56 91 8508/ Fax: (33) 1 57
Email: michelkonczaty101@gmail.com

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