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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: KENNETH OKILO <mrkennethokilo2014@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:10:22 +0100
Subject: Pls note.

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Hello Dear,

My name is Kenneth Okilo, I work as a Senior Accountant Auditor with a
private Financial firm and Fund Management Institution,and was the the
personal Account Auditor to late Christian Eich had a prime client cum
depositor under my portfolio Late Mr. Christian Eich from Germany with
a closing balance of $19.million as his last deposit. Late Mr.
Christian Eich died along with his entire family in July 2000 in
Concorde airplane crash ,below is a website
link which I will appreciate you see read the information there yourself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

The reason why I am contacting you is based on trust to enable my
colleagues and I present you as the next-of-kin/INHERITOR to the
deceased's deposit for safety and subsequent disbursement of this fund
between us having waited this long for his relatives to come for claim
but all to no avail,fact remains that till date nobody has come to our
Bank for the claim of this fund, and the Financial Regulatory Policy
Time provision for claim of deceased's deposit officially stipulates
20 years and an official concession of 2 years grace period, which has
all elapsed, as such can be terminated at any moment and funds will be
declared abandoned and taking over by our government, that's why I
contacted you.

If you are interested, I can present you as the INHERITOR with proper
documentation that will qualify and enable you to have the funds
claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the
release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with
the laid down rules and laws of claiming the left behind funds of
deceased depositors in our Establishment.Please contact me for more
details if interested, we will also discuss a fair sharing formula to
make all parties involve happy after been released and transferred
into your account.

Yours Sincerely,

Kenneth Okilo.
Financial Auditor.

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