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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: "Mr. Arnold Auckland" <office@qianhaipower.com>
Reply-To: <bb.telexdept@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:04:01 +0100
Subject: RE:TREAT AS URGENT.

Attention Dear Beneficiary!

Compliments of the season to you and your loved ones.This is to inform you that we have received the winning
check from the bank last week and kept it with Mr. Paul Brown as we discussed and agreed with the Board of
directors, Please kindly email him immediately with your address inorder to send you the fund worth of USD$1.5
million, I am in Colombia now.I kept USD$1.5 million cashier check which I believe Mr Paul Brown has cash the check and ready to delivered to
you & will send you the rest of money after my business trip here. I also sent so many emails to you last week
but all bounced back.

Therefore contact Mr. Paul Brown at his email address below for him to send the cheque to you: (
bb.telexdept@gmail.com ) or call him at +1 9292691470.

Thanks and do let me know when you have received it.

Regards

Mr. Arnold Auckland

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