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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: "INFO"<test@d-kvadrat.ru>
Date:
Subject:

Good day.



Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as

being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude

will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the

end of the day. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous

correspondence between us. My Name is Russel, personal Financial consultant to my Late client,

an expatriate engineer and contractor.


My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me to secure his funds deposited with the Bank

before he died, to avoid it being confiscated or declared as unclaimed by the Bank. The fund

value is $76,500,000.00 (seventy Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand USD), this money was

deposited by my late client before he passed away, on the 16th April 2014, and up till today his

relatives remained unknown.

I guarantee the success of this transaction in all legal definitions.
As his consultant/account manager I have contacted the bank for the claim of the fund and the

Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the account will be declared

unserviceable and the fund will be retired by the state.Since this account is secret and there

is no one left to claim the fund that is the reason I am contacting you. I am actually asking

for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client’s

fund, so that the fund will be released to you as his next of kin. All the legal documents to

back up your claim as my client’s next of Kin will be provided. All I require is your honest

cooperation and absolute confidentiality in order to guarantee success.



I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be for expences and Charity Organizations,

while the remaining is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will

use my position to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are

interested, please contact me,upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details

that will help you understand more on this transaction.



The intended transaction will be processed under legitimacy by a lawyer,which will protect me

and you from any violation of law.

If you wish to achieve the goal with me, please kindly get back to me with your interest for

further explanations and better understanding. Also be kind to let me know if you are not

interested so that I can further my search to another Citizen that has the same surname with my

late client.



Kindest Regards

Russel

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