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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: Charles Jackson <dcaldwell055@gmail.com>
Reply-To: charles.jacksonx01@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:34:25 +0000
Subject: Urgent response

Greetings

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as it is utterly top secret. I know it may come
to you as a surprise, but I sincerely apologize if it invades your
privacy. My name is Charles Jackson, Chief Data Analyst of a Financial
institute.

I am writing to solicit for your assistance in the transfer of (Twenty
Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) $25.9 Million.

This amount is part of the funds stashed into the US by Late Malaysian
Investor before his sudden death in 2021. As the Chief Data custodian
of the bank, I cloned the amount and placed it in a suspense account
without a beneficiary. By doing so, I deleted the data of the original
beneficiary and saved it as unclaimed funds without a beneficiary. I
need to move the fund as an investment fund out of our bank. Here I
need your assistance.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this fund
thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this fund
into your bank account. I intend to give 40% of this fund to you. I do
need to stress that there is practically no risk involved, hence it
is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to
stand as the original depositor of this fund.

I will appreciate your timely response and I will initiate this
process towards an immediate conclusion, But if this message offends
your ethics and moral values, please kindly forget it and I will never
contact you again.

Regards,
Charles Jackson

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