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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: Donald Silver <donalsilver909@gmail.com>
Reply-To: donaldsilver9099@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 13:12:49 -0700
Subject: Dear friend, let's partner.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Donal Silver, Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent and
confidential Business Proposition for you and for our overall mutual
interest. On the 6th of March 2001, our Customer, an American
National, late Douglas .J. Stone, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with
the Federal Government of Nigeria, deposited a valued amount of US$7.5
Million in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to
his forwarded address but
got no reply.

After a month we sent a reminder & finally, we discovered from his
contract employers NNPC, that late Douglas .J. Stone , until his death
thirteen years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack on American Airlines
Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles’, California,
crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86
people on board. All occupants of the Airplane, unfortunately, lost
their lives. 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, made further investigation and discovered
that late. Douglas .J. Stone, did not declare any Next of kin in all
his official documents.

This sum of US$7.,500 000 ( Seven million, five hundred thousand
United States Dollars) is still floating in the bank in a suspense
account and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum
at the end of each year, No one will come forward to claim it.
According to Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 16years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody
applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that I will
like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of late Douglas
.J. Stone. This is simple. All I require is your honesty and
co-operation to enable us to see this deal through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your
return email the f following information for the transfer in your
favor.

1. Your full names
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Your contact
address----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. Your private phone
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Occupation.................................................................
5. Age........................................
6. SEX.......................................

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus;

(1). I as the Originator of the Funds will take 50% of the transferable Fund.
(2). You as the Manager of the Funds will take 50% of the transferable Funds.

Most importantly, CONFIDENTIALITY Is what I see as the life wire to
the successful transfer of these Funds must have to be emulated
between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you
will not in any way expose the content of this transaction to anybody
be it your Friends, Colleagues, and Co-Workers.

Urgent Response.....Good Day

Mr. Donald Silver.

N/B-It is pertinent to inform you that this money has been moved to a
Foreign Transit Account to secure it first before contacting you.
Also, we have to work fast to ensure that we achieve this before the
end of this fiscal quarter.

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