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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: Kane Richmond <kaneriichmond01@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 11:48:56 +0100
Subject: I Need Your Urgent Assistance.

Good day, I am a banker, i need your urgent co-operation to carry out
this business opportunity in my bank,from my section in the bank i
discovered an abandoned sum of $11.6million dollars that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died with his supposed next of kin
since July 22, 2003. The money has been here in our Bank lying dormant
for years now without anybody coming for the claim of it. I need your
urgent assistance in transferring the fund into your private bank
account.

I want the bank to release the money to you as the relative and the
next of kin to our deceased customer,the banking laws here does not
allow such money to stay more than 20years because the money will be
recalled to the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. I am ready to
share with you 40% for you and 60% will be kept for me, by indicating
your interest i will send you the full details on how the transfer
will be executed.

Mr.Kane

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