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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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Fraud email example:

From: cliffthabani03@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:18:29 +0000
Subject: Good day to you,

Untitled form

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf92O9y8BYY9VVTgcW-U5e3UgvCzpQjDmeFT6l6pJItfZKi_w/viewform?vc
Good day to you,

I know you will be surprised to receive this mail from me, my name is brown
Hilton, I am a security adviser to a member of the contract award
department South Africa which I will not mention names for now for security
reasons. I am contacting you to ask for your assistance to move some over
invoiced magnitude amount of MILLIONS of US DOLLARS into your country
through your assistance for security purposes.

I will furnish you with more details and the amount involved in the
transaction and procedures to move on with the transaction upon receipt of
your response. Kindly respond to this mail (brownhilton02@gmail.com)


My regards,
Brown Hilton.


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