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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: "Joe Modisen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lawjoem@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:42:35 +0100
Subject: COVID TASTE RESULT

My name is Joe Modisen,

I have 23,783000.00 Pounds moved into United Kingdom
bank Right now the fund is in the UK, on a secure
unknown bank account with a well known operating
bank you must have hear about.

Please with no taken much of your time, i am
56 years old, and i want a very matured reply
to this mail. If this suite your category,
please reply immediately. I promised to
give you more information and download about
this money once i hear from you. Its a
confidential matter and i must remains

confidential till we trust each other.

This money you can go to the bank within UK to
confirm the availability with the help of vital
data, it could be through telephone banking
process, to find out about the availability
of this funds and the depositor, who die of
COVID19 last year April 2020. This fund was
deposited for his upcoming election campaign and
no one knows about this money accept me his
personal assistant.

I have all the further document and this is
100% risk free. I just want you to receive
this money on my behalf. Once i hear from you,
I will release further vital deposit documents.
This is rich with no stress!Please allow me to
explain to you further either on telephone or email.

Thanks and i wait to hear from you soonest.
God bless
Stay home and save lives  
Joe Modisen

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