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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: "AMBASSADOR STUART" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <emmaoffice2017@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:36:29 -0800
Subject: GOOD NEWS TO YOU //// 200.6.99.85

Dear Beneficiary,
We have arranged your payment valued at Four Million,Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars through swift card via Global Atm card, our atm department will send
you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your money in any atm
machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is Ten Thousand United
States dollars per day.
Kindly provide the below required details:
1.Your contact name and delivery address
2. Your age and current occupation
3.Your home equity {yes or no}.
The atm card payment department has been mandated to issue out your payment
and you have to stop any further communications with any other person(s) or
office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment. Note that because
of impostors, we hereby issue you our code of conduct, which is (atm-0411)
so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using
it as your subject.
Regards,
Mr Emmanuel Okeke.

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