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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: Charlie Aptroot <simone9898989@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:17:17 +0000
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT DETAILS



FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK
2070 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna, VA
United States of America.

RE: ASSISTED REFUND PROGRAMME:

This letter serves to officially inform you that we have been working towards the
eradication of scam in the world with the help of African Union (AU), United Nations
Security Council (UNSC), European Union (EU),the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Financial Intelligence Centre and FBI. We were able to track down up to 74 scams artists
globally from (Canada, USA, Malaysia, Poland, Mauritius, Nigeria and Indonesia) and they
are all in government custody facing criminal and fraud charges.

The United Nations board of trustee on humanitarian aids have ordered that part of the
money recovered from the scammers should be shared among 27 Lucky people around the world
for compensation and you are on the list as your email address was found in one of the scam
Artists computers hard-disk hence we are contacting you, maybe you have been scammed or
being tried to.

You can view this website for your perusal: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/74-
arrested-coordinated-international-enforcement-operation-targeting-hundreds

You are advised to contact our representative in South African Reserve Bank (Dr. Kuben
Naidoo) on below contact details to direct you immediately for your International Bank
transfer of USD$750,000.00.

These funds are in an escrow account of financial crimes enforcement network for security
purpose.


Contact details:

Name: Dr. Kuben Naidoo

Email: kubennaidoo.res@safrica.com

Phone number : +27671944125


Yours Faithfully,

Mr. KEN BLANCO

DIRECTOR

(FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK)


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