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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: MR MUTALIB LAWALE <mutaliblawale@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:30:32 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.
However after series of petition was received by this present regime
from foreign contractors and inability of the BANK IN AFRICA) to
fulfill their obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors, in
conjunction with the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry
Out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to
foreign contractors and to effect payments immediately. During the
above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum
of($10.000.000) (ten million United States dollars) and a quantity of
Gold (95KG) worth (US$28.500, 000,000). Twenty eight million five
hundred thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a
plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learn that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for
the claim. Please I want you to visit the website below for more
information about the Plane Crash:

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and
50% would be for me, while 10% will be for expenses inquire during the
transaction.There after I will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentage indicated.Therefore, to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number,your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text
of the application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to
bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this
transaction will only take us 14 banking working days because as a
banker, I know what to do and move the fund into your account without
any delay and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangement have been made for the transfer You should
contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send you
the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased customer and you should contact me through
this my private e-mail address:(mutalib.lawale@yahoo.com).

Yours faithfully,

Mr Mutalib Lawale

Bill & Exchange Manager.

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