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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: "David.Asara" <coulibalmary2014@gmail.com>
Reply-To: asaradavid@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 09:10:07 -0800
Subject: GOODDAY!!

Dear,

I have been in search of someone and I was pushed to contact you and
see how best we can assist each other.

Meanwhile I am Mr. David Asare, a reputable banker here and my purpose
of contacting you is that On the 15th of March 2007 one Mr. Victor, a
crude oil dealer
made a fixed deposit with my bank valued at $17,500,000.00 (Seventeen
Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and the due date for this
deposit contract is exactly
this time of the year.

Sadly Mr. Victor was among the death victims in the 2008 deadly
earthquake in Sichuan china and left nobody for the claim of his
deposited fund. He was in china on a business trip and that was how he
met his end.

Mr Victor , did not mention any Next of Kin/ Heir when the account was
opened because he was not married and no children and if this fund
should stays here in our bank

after so many years till this time of the year! It will move into the
bank treasury account as un-claimed fund and the Top ones here in our
bank will share it among
themselves.
I don’t want such thing to happen that is the reason why I contacted
you and requesting your assistance to receive this fund into your
account as the beneficiary.


Please kindly consider this proposal and send me your reply of
interest to my private email address: (david.asareubabank@gmail.com)
so that I will give you more
details on how to proceed,

I am not a greedy person, so I am suggesting we share the funds equal,
which is 50/50 to both parties,

I wait for your response direct to my private email
(david.asareubabank@gmail.com) and please delete if you are not
interested.

I wait for you

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