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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: "viviandouglas1980@gmail.com" <viviandouglas1980@gmail.com>
Reply-To: michaelbowen733@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:29:19 +0200
Subject: Dear beneficiarie,


Dear beneficiarie,&nbsp;We are contacting you from the Claims and Investigation Unit of the British Deposit Insurance Corporation (BDIC). This is the agency charged with the duty of ratifying all contract and inheritance claims from Africa, Middle East, and Europe ; with the view to recommending appropriate measure for release. This is based on a Joint Regulatory agreement with the United Nations and the signatory countries.&nbsp;You must be aware that the recent economic turmoil in the&nbsp; United States of America has prompted us to reach out to all outstanding beneficiaries, who are yet to be paid their long awaited benefits. We are doing this to prevent a further drop in the value of affected countries’ foreign reserve portfolio as the U.S and world stock and financial markets continue to plummet. We want to be able to pay off all outstanding benefits now, so they do not end up owing more than they have in the near future as their foreign reserves accounts continue to deplete at a high rate.&nbsp;Most banks in the&nbsp; United States have recently been bailed out by the U.S. Government, in an effort to unfreeze the stagnant credit and financial Market. This move has helped add more fluidity to countries’ reserve accounts, so you must take advantage of this current situation now to get your benefits paid to you&nbsp;We understand you may be one of many whom had been disappointed with the pace of transfer and the corrupt nature of some of the government officials and so have put in place a transparent system, guarded with checks and balances to ensure that you get paid starting from the next week, with an approved part payment of US$5,500,000; which the British Department of the Treasury has approved in collaboration with the affected countries, under a Debt Buy Back arrangement.&nbsp;Our appointed fiduciary will commence transfer proceedings, but this is subject to your signing the original copies of your final fund release order documents and procurement of a Foreign Reserve Allocation Tag (FRAT) in order to enable you claim your funds, as we cannot accept proxy or representative signatures, based on our finding that lawyers have connived and collaborated to extort money from unsuspecting contractors and inheritance beneficiaries.&nbsp;This is aimed to check embezzlement and extortion of funds by government and agency officials. kindly contact via&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;michaelbowen733@gmail.com&nbsp;Yours faithfully,Michael BowenDirector, BDICmichaelbowen733@gmail.com

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