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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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Fraud email example:

From: Roose Grace-Waheed <bar.davedluther@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sectec1667@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 02:24:08 +0000
Subject: I look forward to hearing from you soon.

God bless you.

My name is Mrs Roose Grace-Waheed, an employee of Barclays Investment Bank
Dubai. I am the personal accountant to Mr Chang Kai, a Chinese film
director who also runs a private business as a Gold Merchant in Dubai.
Chang Kai was a victim of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) alongside his family
in Wuhan, it's unfortunate indeed. Mr Chang died at the age of 55yrs on 14
February 2020, he does not have any formal relatives as they all died at
the cause of this nightmare Virus. Before his death, he confided in me with
his last wishes to look for someone trustworthy and who will work together
with me to use his fund worth Sum of $ 14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million
seven Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) United States Dollars for charitable
work.

He instructed that 30% of the total fund be used to help/donate to
Orphanage homes and the rest for me and anyone who volunteered to assist on
this transaction. This transaction is legitimate and in essence, it will
undergo normal procedures as stipulated in the act of the financial and
allied matter and all the required legal documents will be issued in your
name. You must understand that chances or opportunities like this are
common in the finance industry but not heard.

People put their monies in finance companies and some of these accounts are
either coded or confidentially operated. Therefore, when such people die
what do you think happens to these monies when nobody comes for their
claims? This is one of the numerous opportunities for good "free" monies to
be made within and among the bank officials. I'm aware that my contact to
you is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in respect of the
fact that so many miscreants and impostors have taken possession of the
internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely
difficult for a genuine and legitimate person's like us to get attention
and recognition.

But if you follow my instructions/directions and put in your maximum
assistance and co-operation to this project, the money (USD14 Million) will
hit any Bank Account that you will provide for this transaction within (14)
bank working days and I shall immediately fly to your country and meet you
face to face to receive my share and plan for investment with part of my
share and use the rest to build/donate to orphanage homes as agreed.

You should also bear in mind that for a business of this nature to succeed
we (you and I) have to be sincere, trustworthy, and more importantly
honest. I have taken you as my partner and strongly believe that you are
not going to betray me or sit on this money when it eventually enters your
account. Get back to me for more detail on how to get this transaction,
Below is the heartbreaking news link of the deceased Chang Kai and his
family.

Click on the link below to read the guardian article very well to know the
genuineness of this transaction.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/coronavirus-kills-chinese-film-director-family-wuhan-covid-19

I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Respectfully,
Roose Grace-Waheed.

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