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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: David Don <dond65688@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:10:41 +0100
Subject: Re: Reply


Re: Reply
From: David Don.
Group Finance Director.
LLoyds Banking Group United Kingdom.


Greetings To You !!!!!

Dear,

Compliments of the season!
I am contacting you for a legitimate business transaction strictly for you
and me alone. I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of
One-hundred and Thirty-Five Million GBP Only {£135,000,000.00] here in our
bank. The owner of this dormant account died on 4th Jan 2012. Since his
death, nobody has operated in his account because the account has NO
BENEFICIARY attached to it. With my position as group Finance Director, I
wish to present you to the bank as the next of kin and beneficiary to
Inheritance the fund..

According to our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS and decision imposed by the new
British Prime Minister Mr.Boris Johnson; this dormant fund will be
confiscated by law and will be diverted to the British Treasury as
Unclaimed fund if it remains dormant for a period of [11] Eleven years
without any claim.

I therefore solicit for your sincere cooperation in transferring this
dormant fund to your foreign account as the foreign beneficiary of the fund
to avoid confiscating it by our bank. This transaction will be done in a
legitimate procedure within 7-14 banking days to avoid any breach of the
law of Inheritance.

HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED:?
As the group finance director of our bank,all our client account details
and file are in my possession and that makes it easy for me to include your
name as the beneficiary of the fund in all necessary documents involving
the money we wish to transfer out from our bank. Most importantly, you will
be required to:

1 - Act as the original beneficiary of the funds as I will be guiding you
in the procedures.
2 - Receive the funds into a business/private bank account.
3 - At the completion of this transaction, the sharing rates shall be 50%
for me while 45% for you. and 5% shall be set aside for expenses
reimbursement.

If you are willing to cooperate in this project reply back to me as soon as
possible.

Anticipating for your positive response for more details.
Yours truly,
David Don.
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com

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