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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: "Mr. Edwin Forsyth" <kevinanderson48200@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rameses23@citromail.hu
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:19:20 +0800
Subject: Investment possibilities

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Hi

In the course of my work as the Head of Operations at Coventry Building
Society in England, I discovered a substantial amount of money
fixed over a long period of time. Upon an in depth investigation, the fund
belongs to Zaharie Ahmad Shah,
a captain at Malaysia Airlines.

Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was the senior pilot on board the ill-fated Boeing
777-200ER with flight number MH370 that disappeared from the radar 8th,
March, 2014 and has been missing till date. Mr. Zaharie, aside from being a
pilot, was also into the business of rough diamonds mining from Botswana
and Angola in Africa but our bank was his major bank since the proceeds of
his diamonds smuggling deals were paid directly into his Coventry Building
Society bank account. Being a pilot was of covert advantage to move these
diamonds to China where he got good value for them. His bank balance here
is worth US$16.7M. (US Dollar Account)

Zaharie had a wife and 3 children all doing very well but they are unaware
of their father's fixed deposit in our bank as it's not a salary account.
He also did not operate it with his name but with codes due to the nature
of his business i suppose. I plan to transfer this money to your bank
account as the Next-of-kin since he was presumed dead by my bank as efforts
to contact him proved abortive. You have nothing to be worried about as the
documentation would be perfected by a Senior Attorney and would be
notarized following laid down rules by the Court.

Here is the link to the publication for your perusal:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/


You will provide the following:

1) Your Full Names and address.
2) Phone number.
3) Profession and post held presently.
4) Bank Account with address of bank and Swift code.
5) Nearest International airport to your city.

You must give me an assurance that once the fund is remitted into your
account, you will notify me to enable me come over for my share of the fund
as i plan to invest my share in Real Estate and Hospitality business in
your country

You and I will share 60/40. 50% for me, 40% for you and 10% for any
incidental expenses that might arise in the process of getting this fund
approved in your name as the next-Of-Kin. This is not a random mail please.
TREAT AS CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!


Yours sincerely,
Mr. Edwin Forsyth
Head of Operations
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Coventry Building Society
United Kingdom

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