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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: visitor <visitor@r64.fssprus.ru>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:02:54 -0700
Subject: FROM: THE OFFICE OF THE FACEBOOK PROMO TEAM

CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!
FROM: THE OFFICE OF THE FACEBOOK PROMO TEAM

WINNING NUMBER: FBMRP/017/3038216
REFERENCE NUMBER: EALP/66-CAW662016

Attention: ??????

We are pleased to announce to you, that you are one of the 50 lucky
winners in FACEBOOK MEGA REWARD PROMO draw, held on 5th of June, 2017 in
United States of America. This reward program is held annually in
promoting Facebook Network as the world's leading social networks. All
50 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
10,000,000.00 international Facebook account users. Your Facebook
account has emerged alongside 50 others Facebook users as lucky winners
in Facebook Promo draws.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of
($500,000.00 us dollars) Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars
only. Please contact the under listed Facebook fiduciary agent as soon
as possible for confirmation and immediate release of your winning fund.

FIDUCIARY AGENT CONTACT INFORMATION:

Name: Dr. Benson Markus, PROMO DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.
E-mail: (fbfiduciaryagentpromo@gmai)
l.com
For speedy processing of your winning claim as a winner, please include
the following information below in your mail to the fiduciary agent and
make sure you use your winning number as the subject to avoid delay of
your claim:

BENEFICIARY FULL NAME, RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, COUNTRY, EMAIL ADDRESS, AGE,
TEL NUMBER AND OCCUPATION.

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Mrs. ???????????
FACEBOOK PROMO COORDINATOR,
FACEBOOK © 2017.

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