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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: Hamza Umar <back-up@bt.bebrasil.com>
Reply-To: help@justnanco.co.uk
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2023 08:43:00 -0300
Subject: Notice



--
Greetings,


I am Mr. Hamza Umar Director of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of The Access Bank UK Ltd.


I personally discovered an inactive domiciliary account worth
USD106,532,000.000 (One Hundred And Six Million Five Hundred And Thirty
Two Thousand United States Dollars Only) from our late customer during
our Bank's Annual Account Auditing.


Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated this account till
date. Definitely, our Banking code of ethics will confiscate this fund
if it remains inactive for a period of years without any claims.


In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring
this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund. Our
sharing ratio will be 50% for you and 50% for me.


Should you be interested to work with me on this project Kindly get back
to me for more information and Guidelines and if you are not interested,
please don't bother responding.


Yours sincerely,
Mr. Hamza Umar
Director of bills/exchange
At;The Access Bank UK Ltd.

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