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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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Fraud email example:

From: "MR. EGO AMAKA" <mr.hongeastasia@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mregoamaka2020@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:40:16 -0700
Subject: GOOD NEWS

GOOD NEWS

Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department in a
Bank I Am Dr.AMAKA EGO . Actually, I have a very urgent & confidential
Business Proposition for you & for our overall mutual interest. On the
6th of March 2001, our Customer, an American National,late Douglas J.
Stone, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria, deposited a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch. Upon
maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but
got no reply.

After a month we sent a reminder, & finally we discovered from his
contract employer NNPC, that the late Douglas J. Stone ,until his
death Seventeen years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack to American
Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles,
California, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center
(WTC) with 86 people on board. All occupants of the Aero plane
unfortunately lost their
lives. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a
WILL and all attempts to trace his Next of kin were fruitless. I
therefore made further investigation and discovered that late. Douglas
J. Stone did not declare any Next of kin in all his official
documents.

This sum US$32Million is still floating in the bank and the interest
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year
.No one will come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Laws, at
the expiration of 24years, the money will revert to the Ownership of
the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the
funds.Consequently,my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner
to stand in as a Next of
kin of the late Douglas J. Stone.

This is simple. All I require is your honesty and co-operation to
enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your return email
the following information for the transfer in your favor.
1. Your full name as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone and fax numbers

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus;(1). I
as the Originator of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable
Fund..(2).You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the
transferable Fund. Most importantly, CONFIDENTIAL as what I saw as the
life wire to the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be
emulated between you and me.You have to use this media to promise me
that you will not in any way expose the content of this transaction to
anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers.

I will also want you to send your reply to this
email(mregoamaka2020@gmail.com) as soon as you get this mail to enable
us to discuss the modalities and processes for success of this
transaction. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and
understanding. I wait for your
kind

I await your response.
Dr.AMAKA EGO

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