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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: homelandsecuiity@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:08:29 +0100
Subject: About us,


Attn:
=

We received an Email from a Lady called, Mrs Carol Cage, she called us this=
morning with this telephone number: +19092751399, Informing us that you di=
ed three days ago, She said that we should send your ATM CARD to her, Mrs C=
arol Cage, home Address: Watertown, Wi 53094, usa. and also she provided th=
is bank details for the transfer:
Bank Name:Wells Fargo
Account Name:Mrs Carol Cage
Account number 2043488572
Routing number 122105278
She stated that she is your next of kin beneficiary, and she also told us =
that you instructed her to claim your properties including your fund that i=
s in this office in case you are not there to be found on earth.
She said that you told her that there is transfer charge she will pay in o=
ther to receive the fund, that I should let her know the cost for her to pa=
y, Please let us know if this is true or not because we are confused now ab=
out this claim because she requested that we should send to her the Name an=
d Information to pay the required delaying fee to enable us transfer your f=
und to her.
Please try and get back to us immediately you receive this message because =
if you did not respond in the next 72 hours we will proceed with the transf=
er without any further delay and we will instruct her to pay the required c=
harges of $290 and have your fund released to her.
Thanks,
Charles
=20

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