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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: "SUDANESE OFFICER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ppmc101@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 13:46:43 -0700
Subject: Hope you got my message?


My name is Adamu Ochilan Jr, i am a personal lawyer/aide to the Ousted Sudanese President al-Bashir,I am writing to make a very personal appeal even though it's business, I am ready to send you some documents on request to prove Myself about what i am telling you in this email, please i want you to keep this to information yourself as i know that you may have people or friends from my country want you to treat it as personal as i am into hiding because i have been declared wanted because of my closeness with the Ousted Sudanese Ex-President Omar al-Bashir ,they know i have most of the information or secrets about his funds outside Suden,i have decided to approach you so that you can help me divert the sum of $12,200,000 which i helped him to keep in a bank vault recently before his government was toppled by the military, all related documents to the deposit still with me, If you are interested, i will give you more details about myself, my current Location and directives on how
My Direct Email: ppmc101@gmail.com, I will be waiting to hear from you.
Thanks

PLEASE OPEN THIS BBC NEWS LINK , YOU WILL UNDERSTAND ME MORE: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47997729

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