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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: Michael Burlington <austin.villay2k@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Michael.burlington2021@indamail.hu
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:15:25 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

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PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
215 Oxford Street W,
London
Ontario N6H 1S5 Canada.


Dear Sir/Ma

My name is Michael Burlington, an accounts manager with TD Canada
Trust Bank. I retrieved your email address in my search in the
internet for a reliable and trustworthy person that i can transact
with.

I was the Account Officer to Late Engineer James who died of COVID 19
six months ago.

Before his death, he had an investment deposit with my bank totaling
the sum of $47,500, 000.00 (FORTY SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
U.S. DOLLARS ONLY).

Late Engineer James lost his wife and two children in an auto crash
three years ago.

All efforts made by our Bank to locate his relatives have been
unsuccessful so I decided to write you as I have monitored this
account in the bank for a year and three month now and no one has come
forth with any claim.

The last time i visited him in the hospital before his death, he
confidently told me that 50% of the total deposit in my Bank will be
given to an orphanage, but he did not say anything about the remaining
50%.

Reply via my private email address at:
michaelburlington2022@indamail.hu for further clarification.

If your response is positive stating you are interested to work with
me, I will provide you

with my private cell phone number so that we could have a confidential
conversation.

Please also be kind to get back to me if you are not interested.

Kind Regard,
Michael Burlington.

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