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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: James Leo <Info@hacos.com>
Reply-To: jamesleod4444@gmail.com
Date: 23 Aug 2022 05:35:19 +0200
Subject: PARTNERSHIP WITH ME ( INVESTMENT)



Good day, I’m James, how are you doing today and I hope you are
doing great? I saw your contact on a reliable company database,
after going through your profile, I decided to contact you. I
have confidence that I can trust you and partnership with you in
this business of investing in your country, i feel safe and
satisfied dealing with you in this mutually beneficial
transaction, However this correspondence is purely private and it
should be treated as such, I guarantee you that this deal is
hitch free.

I’m the bank manager of PREMIER SAVINGS BANK head office London’
United Kingdom, I’m the general overseer of all departments and
I’m also married with a little daughter.

The reason I’m contacting you is for the financial benefit for
the both of us, the good thing is that you happen to bear the
same surname as a customer of our bank who died in an air crash
years ago. He deposited the sum of (£7.400000)’ seven point four
million pounds with our bank and without any next of kin and this
account has been left and is dormant.

I have spoken to the legal adviser to the deceased and he is
willing to cooperate with us, he will provide us all the
necessary legal documents in obtaining this funds, my agreement
is to give him %20 of the money after the job is done, any other
foreign investor who will partnership in this deal and myself, we
have to disburse the balances %80 between ourselves, therefore
the both of us will be taking %40 each after the deal has be
finalized and the money will be transferred to your account
before it will be disbursed, we don’t want the money to be
transferred here, we need a foreign investor account that can
accommodate this large sum of money, and with the help of me as
the bank manager after this is done, I’m going to also edit and
erase the history of the account after this transaction has been
finalized and forward to you as the next of kin whom bear the
same name with the deceased to avoid any trace.

Please i will want you to stand as the next of kin to this
account, The legal adviser will guide you through all the legal
procedures and as for me as the head of this bank, with my good
office I’m also going to approved every documentations that will
back this transaction, we need to act fast before this funds
comes to the notice of everyone, no one knows about it, if we
aren’t fast and if this money is found, the money will be
deposited into bank of UK and it will be of no use and beneficial
to central bank and they will split the money between themselves,
so please let’s put our heads together in achieving this
adventure.

Please get back to me urgently as I look forward to coming to
your country for investments.

This is the link to the incident which led to the death of my
client.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Sincerely,
James Leo
+44 7451286679

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