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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: ANDREW CECERE <fundsmgtoffice@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:43:35 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION!! SIR/MA'AM

Greetings!!

I had previously sent you an email with no feedback from you. i
suppose it went to your junk folder. I anticipate that you read this
mail quickly and let me know your opinion or willingness on this
classified information that I brought to you here.

I have something very important here to discuss with you. I am Mr.
Andrew Cecere, the Chairman & CEO of U.S.Bancorp. During our last bank
audits and routine-check, we discovered an abandoned account belonging
to a deceased foreign client, named Mr. Wang Jian, a Co-Founder and
Co-Chairman of the HNA Group, a Chinese Conglomerate with significant
Real Estate ownerships across the U.S. He died on a fatal accident
while on a business trip in France. Uptil date no one has come over to
make claim of the abandoned funds that was domiciled in his account.
We have carried out several investigation on his account profile and
noticed a huge sum of money that was dormant in his account over the
years. Kindly visit this link for your perusal...
https://observer.com/2018/07/wang-jian-hna-founder-dies-tragic-fall/

In the course of searching for a capable and reliable partner to
champion this business opportunity, fortunately i come across your
contact via social media. And the reason why i contacted you here and
revealed this secret to you, is to request your assistance in
transferring the sum of US$9.200.000.00 (Nine Million, Two Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) by you standing as his business
partner, so that you can make claim of this funds as the beneficiary
to the deceased client. Meanwhile, before i contacted you, i have made
several efforts to locate any of Late Mr. Wang Jian relatives who
knows about the account, but it proved abortive. My attorney will
present you to the bank management as Mr. Wang Jian's last foreign
business partner. I have mapped out strategies and modalities to
invest this funds in a good profitable venture as soon as i come over
to your country for collection of my own percentage. I plan to
establish an Orphanage home to support the Orphanage Children, and to
build a hospital to help the less-privileged, homeless and elderly
People's needs. I took this decision because I don't want this fund to
be transferred into government treasury as an unclaimed funds. I will
offer you 30% of this funds for your support and assistance upon
receipt of this funds. Note here that there are practically no risk
involved, is a bank-to-bank wire transfer. So i believe i can trust
you here with guarantee that you won't betray me for any reason after
receiving this fund. As a staff of the bank, i cannot directly be
connected to this transaction, so this is why I have to contact you
for us to work together in agreement, so that you can assist to
receive this fund into your bank account for us to establish a charity
project. I have already notified my attorney about this, so as to
obtain the required documentations and as well guide you on how to
receive this funds. I will send you the bank contact details in my
next email, to enable you contact the bank today. Please endeavor to
keep me posted as soon as you contact the paying bank.

Warm regards.
Mr. Andrew Cecere
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer

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