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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: 5757757757 dhdggdggdggdjdd <123rtlf@gmail.com>
Reply-To: maab1@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 11:51:25 +0200
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?

>From Harvey Terence (Mr.)

25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB,

Good day

I am Mr. Harvey Terence, Operating Officer of this bank. With your
honest assistant and cooperation, we can finalize this transaction
within 7/14 working days.

I need a reliable and honest person who will be able to handle this
business opportunity with me because of the need to involve a
foreigner. I am contacting you because of such demand, and I believe
you will work with me to achieve this purpose and will never turn down
my request.

Before the United States of America and Iraqi war, our bank customer
Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, who was the deputy governor of Baghdad in
Iraq and also a business man made a deposit of (GBP10,750,000.00) Ten
Million, Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand
Pounds Sterling Only in a Bank account number: ABP-LN-685
00/52207712321 over here in our bank.

But I later discovered that the Deputy Governor has been assassinated
in Baghdad by unknown gun men.

Below is the information about his death as a proof and verification
of his assassination In Baghdad:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm

During my further investigation after hearing of his assassination in
Baghdad, I also discovered that Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his funds with our bank which might be because he embezzled
this funds while in office and was afraid of revealing his political
dignity when opening the above account number in our bank until his
dead.

My aim of contacting you is to assist me to receive this money in your
bank account over there in your country and let me know how much
commission you will receive out of the total fund when transferred
into your oversea bank account?.

You will diligently transfer the balance to me through another bank
account number from another bank I will forward to you as soon as the
fund is transferred into your over sea account after deducting your
commission from the whole sum or I will come over to your country to
meet with you one on one for sharing of the fund or shall invested the
fund into any lucrative business out there in your country together..

We are going to process and perfect the transaction legally as bank to
bank procedure has been put in place.

I need your urgent reply through my private e-mail address at;
maab1@yahoo.com, if you are interested to work with me.

I will provide more details on how to process the approval of the fund
in your name to be release for instant bank to bank wire transfer into
any designated bank account of your choice without delay.

Please keep this transaction safe and confidential as exposing this
transaction will jeopardize my reputation in this Bank.

I would like to hear from you in no distant time as soon as you read
this mail through the above stated E-mail address so that we can
proceed accordingly.

Best Regards,

Mr. Harvey Terence

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