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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: Michael Morgan <benin.postoffice229@gmail.com>
Reply-To: heritagebankplc890@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:18:20 +0100
Subject: Co-coordinator Award Lottery Promotion

Attn: Esteemed Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that you have won prize Money of Eight Million
United States Dollar only($8,000,000.00USD) for 2020 Prize Promotion
which is organized by all domain users and all social network users
too.

GOOGLE and MICROSOFT collect all the e-mail addresses of the people
that are actively online, among the millions that subscribed to
e-mails/social network users. Six people were selected to benefit from
this Promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIMS

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center.
The lottery prize award must be claimed no later than 14th days, from
date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period
will be forfeited. Please be informed that your ATM CARD in the sum of
US$8,000,000.00 (Eight Million United States Dollars) is now with your
fiduciary agent in Abuja Nigeria, insured and issued with your email
address which won you this prize, therefore you should contact your
fiduciary agent Mr. Victor Umeh, our payment office, Nigeria with your
detail information so that they will expedite actions for the
processing of your fund delivery. Stated below are your identification
numbers:

BATCH NUMBER:
MFI/08/APA-43658,
REFERENCE NUMBER:2008234522
AWARD WINNING NUMBER:01 14 21 30 35 48

These numbers fall within the Nigeria Location file, you are requested
to contact your Fiduciary agent on below info and send your winning
identification numbers to them;

FIDUCIARY AGENT/CLAIMS MANAGER CONTACT INFORMATION:
TEL: (+234 805 369 7179)
CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Victor Umeh
E-Mail: heritagebankplc890@gmail.com

You are advised to send the following information to your Fiduciary
Agent to facilitate the release of your fund to you.

Terms and Conditions applied.
1.Full Name-------------------
2.Country---------------------
3.Contact Address-------------
4.Telephone Number------------
4.Copy of your passport, or identity card-------

Congratulations!! Once again. Yours in service,

Michael Morgan
(Co-coordinator Award Lottery Promotion)

WARNING!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is
successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may
arise from double claims.

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