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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: "ITIS-ADMINISTRATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adamssse6@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 10:59:13 +0800
Subject: LUCKY & WORTHY

International Lottery Yearly Draw
2310 Cousteau Court Vista,
CA 94082
USA ,
 
This is to inform you that you won a prize money of Five Million,five hundred
thousand United states dollars [$5,500,000,00] for the 2019 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 are 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 to 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 ,This
ITSI reward must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of draw
notification . Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited to the government treasury system.
Listed below is your identification number,
REFERENCE NUMBER: ITSI-0141218
These figures, which fall within the American Location file [ALF], you
are asked to contact our fiduciary agent in the United States (Robert Smith)
Agent Name: Robert Smith
E-Mail ;smoooo4321@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,
Edward Adamu
(International Lottery  (Inc) ORGANIZER 2019)

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