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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: "E-mail draw awards" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.marycampbel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:48:46 +0800
Subject: E-mail raffle draw award

International Lottery Yearly Draw
2310 Cousteau Court Vista,
CA 92081
USA
 
This is to inform you that you won a prize money of Five Million,five hundred
thousand United states  [$5,500,000,00] for the 2018 International E-mail
Draw Awards, organized by International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc(ITSI).
 
ITSI  collects all the email addresses of people who are active on the
Internet , between the millions of people that subscribed to Yahoo,
Hotmail, AOL, Walla, Gmail, mail.Cz, American Mail, Mail Russian,
Indian Mail, Arabic Mail, Italian mails, and only few from other e-mail
providers. Six people are selected each year take advantage of this
offer and you are one of the selected winners.
 
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
The winners will be paid in accordance with the Settlement Center.
ITSI  awards must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of
notification Draw. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
 
 
Listed below is your identification number:
 
REFERENCE NUMBER: ITSI-0171228
 
These figures, which fall within the American Location file [ALF], you
are asked to contact our fiduciary agent in the United States (Mr Alfred Zayd )
 
Agent Name: Alfred Zayd
 
E-Mail: alfredzayd@gmail.com
 
 
Lottery winners form of payment requests.
 
FullName .................................................
Date of Birth ..................................
ADDRESS ................................................. .
SEX .........................
AGE ..................................
State ............. ...............................
Occupation ...........................................
TELEPHONE ..........................................
EMAIL ......................... ........................
 
The winner reference / batch No ........................... Approved
This will begin the process that will allow the release of your funds.
 
Congratulations!!!
 
Best Regards,
Mary Campbel
(International Lottery  Inc ORGANIZER 2018)

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