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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: Kate Mozzicarelli <director@megalojaodobras.com.br>
Reply-To: accountant@vietnamprobankvn.com
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:57:10 -0300
Subject: Account Provision For Transfer Of $82,308,000.00 USD



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Good day,


My name is Kate Mozzicarelli; I work as Managing Director at a bank here
in my country. I am writing to seek your interest over a partnership
business transaction.


In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $82,308,000.00 USD. In
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in May 2016 in an automobile accident. Since we
got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or Foreign Business Partner to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, I
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with
him at the accident leaving nobody behind for the claim.



It is therefore upon this discovery that I have decided to make this
business proposal to you and to release the money to you as the next of
kin or foreign business partner to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want
this money to go into the Bank's treasury account as unclaimed funds.



The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after a few years, the money will be transferred into
the Bank's treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner from your country and a citizen of our
country cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner hence I contacted
you, I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign account and the remaining 50%
will be for me.



Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement of the fund
according to the percentages indicated in this proposal. Therefore, to
enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as business partner or next of kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication
and location where in the money will be remitted.



Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the format of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made in the bank for smooth and
effective transfer of the money into your designated bank account that
you will provide.



You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter for
more details.


Yours faithfully,
Kate Mozzicarelli

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