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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: Quazeem Fawartz Abdulahi <ukorasamuel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:39:35 +0100
Subject: Be a next-of-kin

Dear sir,

My name is Quazeem Fawartz Abdulahi. I am the manager of Bill and Exchange
at the Foreign Remittance Department of our bank. During the course of our
audit, we discovered a sum of $9.700.000 million in an account that
belonged to one of our foreign customer. Upon maturity, we sent a routine
notifications to his forwarding addresses but got no response. After some
months, we sent a reminder and finally discovered that our customer died
from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he
did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were
fruitless. I therefore, want to use my position as the Bill and Exchange
Manager to have the fund transferred into your account in your country.

In my further investigation, I discovered that the person did not declare
any next-of-kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit
paperwork. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head
of my department to make this business proposal to you to sincerely seek
your consent to present you as the next-of-kin/will beneficiary or relation
to the deceased whose last name coincidentally is the same as yours and
your native origin according to his given address.

The proceeds of this account valued at (US$9.7 Million United State
Dollars) can be paid to you, which we will share in the ratio, 60:40. I
have carefully mapped out the modalities for execution of this transaction
under a legitimate arrangement to protect you from any breach of the law
both in your country and here in my country when the fund is being
transferred to your bank account.

upon your positive response and conviction that you are capable and will
meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with
me in this business, I will have to provide the entire relevant documents
that will be requested to indicate that you are the rightful beneficiary of
this legacy and our bank will release the fund to you without any further
delay.

Thank you for your understanding as I await your urgent response in order
to give you more details, don't forget to give me those information below
before we can go ahead in this business/project.

Your Full Name/Address:
Your direct Mobile telephone Number:
Your account coordinates:
Your Date of Birth:
Your profession
Your country
Your age

Kindly restrict all replies to: ukorasamuel@gmail.com

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Quazeem Fawartz Abdullahi.

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