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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: "Eric Morgan"<zenith@dvreestr.ru>
Date:
Subject:

Good day,

I came across your email contact through private search when I was looking for a reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this huge transfer project to. My name is Mr Eric Morgan. I am the accounting manager of the NBT bank branch. I am from the USA, married and have two children.

I am writing to request your support for the transfer of funds to the value of $4,750,000.00 (four million seven hundred and fifty thousand US dollars). This fund is the excess of what my branch, where I am the manager, made as profit during the last annual audition. I have already submitted an approved financial statement for the year to my head office in the USA and the head office will never know about this surplus. As an official of the Bank, I cannot be directly associated with this fund, so I am contacting you so that we can work for mutual benefit. I want you to help get this amount into your bank account for us. By now you have 40% of the total fund.

Note: There is virtually. no risk as it will be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to act as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit at our branch so that my head office can arrange for the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept to work with me, I will greatly appreciate it. Once I receive your reply directly to my email address ( redacted@domain.name ), I will provide you with details on how we can successfully achieve this. You can contact me via my personal private email address

Yours sincerely
Eric Morgan
E-mail: redacted@domain.name

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