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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: Susan White <ebiannjustinyak@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aaabrownnn2019@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:45:00 +0100
Subject: URGENT LETTER OF INTENT ACT FAST

Attn Beneficiary

Kindly Re-Confirm if you did authorize one John Kaiser to
represent and to claim your fund on your Behalf as your Next of Kin?
Yes or No?

We hereby officially notify you about the present arrangement to pay
John Kaiser your overdue contract/Prize/inheritance fund to the
account details below which he presented to us.

Beneficiary Name : John Kaiser
Bank Address: 857 Second Avenue East, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Bank phone: 519-376-8480
Bank fax: 519-376-5396
Swift Code: NOSCCATT
Routing Number: 026002532
Transit Number: 12062
Account Number: 0005029

Please do Re-confirm the above Bank account details immediately you
receive this e-mail now if we should commence the transfer of your
$15.5 million us dollars into the bank account details above.

This is because Your fund will be transferred to the above account
details within 72 hours as such we advise you get back to us for
confirmation if we are to commence the payment process to John Kaiser's
Bank Account details above or not. Your immediate response to this
e-mail now will do you good than harm.

Yours truly,

Andrew Brown

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