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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 Francis <litiboard.bceao001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:02:14 -0500
Subject: I have successfully transferred the fund.

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Hello my good friend,

Hope you are well. I find it necessary to contact you again through my new
email and break this good news to you, but if you do not remember me, you
might have received an email message from me in the past regarding a
Multi-million-Dollar business proposal which we never concluded due to
Government financial regulation issues. I am using this opportunity to
inform you that the fund release/transfer has been obtained with the help
of another partner from France who financed the transaction to a logical
conclusion. I'm also very happy to inform you that I have successfully
transferred the fund to my new partner's Bank account in France that was
capable of assisting me in this great venture. I thank you for your great
efforts to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one
reason or the other best known to you, but due to your efforts, courage and
sincerity you showed during the course of the transaction, I want to
compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $350,000.00, so
I have left a (Bank Draft) for you valued at $350,000.00 (Three Hundred and
Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only) and you will be able to cash out
the Bank Draft at any Bank in your Country without a setback.

Kindly contact my account officer with Heritage Bank through her private
email address for the collection of a Bank draft I left for you in her
care, her name is Patricia Dennis and her email address is (
patd2913@yahoo.com ). I have authorized her to release the Draft to you
whenever you made contact with her for its collection. Honestly I did not
forget the attempts you made to help in receiving the fund as requested
from you in the past, I'm very happy that the transaction has been
completed now, my partner and I agreed to give you $350k so that you may
rejoice too. At the moment, I'm very busy with my partner because of the
investment project which my new partner and I are having at hand. Please I
will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the
bottom of my heart, also comply with Patricia's directive so that your
DRAFT can reach you without delay.

Best Regards,
Dr. James Francis.
Former Certified Bank Auditor (CBA)

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