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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: Dr Alan Inn <dralaniinn@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 04:53:30 -0700
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,

I wish to introduce myself to you, I am Mr. Alan Inn a citizen of Benin
Republic, also a staff of a bank (UBA BANK) Porto-Novo office. I am the
Group Chief Financial Officer and Client Asset Management. I am pleased to
get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal which
I believe will profit the both of us after completion. I contacted you
after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this business
transaction, which I will explain below. The sum of (Thirty Five Million
Five Hundred Thousand USD) is floating unclaimed in my bank as all efforts
to get across to the relatives of our client who deposited the money have
been in vain.

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. My position here at
my office requires me to investigate and provide the Next of Kin/Business
Partner, I therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr.
Edward Feigenson did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his
official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank.
According to the Benin Law the money will be reverted to the ownership of
the Benin government after 12 years if nobody applies to claim the fund. To
prevent this from happening I have decided to seek your assistance to have
you stand as his next of kin so that the said fund (35.5 Million USD),
would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your
account. All documents that will have you claim this fund without stress
will be secure and forward to you, we will join hand together to pay the
cost.

I intend to give 50% of the total funds which is the sum of [Seventeen
million, seven hundred and fifty thousand USD] as a compensation for your
assistance. I will notify you on the full transaction on receipt of your
response if interested, and I shall send you the statement of the account
and necessary procedures with which to make the transfer.

Fill below info:

1. Full names
2. Private phone number
3. Current residential address
4. Your ID Card

Your immediate response will be appreciated.

Regards,
Mr. Alan Inn

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