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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.Daniel Jorom" <engmisscar53@gmail.com>
Reply-To: private.newgovernor@outlook.com
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:42:23 +0100
Subject: our Compensation Funds ATM VISA CARD

Dear friend Contact my secretary for the delivering of your VISA CARD value
sum

$2.50000.00.US D.

I'm sorry but happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds

transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from Paraguay though I
tried

my best to involve you in the Gold/diamond, business but God decided the
whole

situations. Presently I am in United Arab Emirates for investment projects
with

my own share of the total sum.

Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in

transferring those funds despite that it failed us somehow.

Now contact my secretary in Nigeria.
His name: Minor Ball
His E-mail: headdepartment202@usa.com

Ask him to send you the VISA CARD total of $2.50000.00 which i kept for
your

compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in

touched with my secretary. Minor Ball and instruct him where to send the
VISA

CARD to you value sum of $ 2.50000.000.00.USD.

Now this amount is me and the new partner contribute and offer you this
amount $

1.50000.00.USD is from my own share while my new partner supported you also
with

sum of $ 1000000.USD from his own share also because I explain the whole
thing

to him that you are the first person I contacted that wanted to assist me
bet

you could not make it and he said okay there is no problem.

so that you will kept the whole secret about my success because I knew that
it

was only you know how I made the money so try to kept everything very
secret. I

hope you understand the reason why this huge amount of funds was kept for
you?

Please do let me know immediately you receive the VISA CARD so that we can
share

the joy after all the sufferings at that time. In the moment, I am very
busy

here because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are
having

at hand, finally,

Remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf
to

receive that money, so feel free to keep in touch with him, so that he will
send

the VISA CARD value of $2.50000.00.US D. Two Million Fifty Thousand United
State

Dollars to you without any delay.

Best Regards,
Mr.Daniel Jorom,

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