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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. Bernard Arnault." <unregionalofficenig@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officemail4good213@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:12:37 +0000
Subject: Compliments Of The Season,

Compliments Of The Season,

Congratulations, You have been gifted $1.5 Million United State
Dollars in 2021 Donation Funds, Contact us at this email for your
claim:

Dear Lucky Winner with great hope this massage will reach you and your
entire family in a very good health condition as I know you will be
curious to know why you were selected to receive a cash sum of
$1,500,000,00 USD.

I, Mr. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault a French business magnate, An
investor and art collector, I am the chairman and chief Executive
officer of LVMH, The world's largest luxury-goods company, I am
mapping out this donation funds every year to 20 countries all over
the world where our company is been located in the world.

I decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000,00 USD to you as part of our
charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all over
the world from our ($16.5 Billion) United State Dollars Mapped for the
on going 2021 Donation. All lucky winners were random selected from
Microsoft email owners list as to make sure this put on in the
internet for the world to see, I have decided to do one thing I
promised God forever as you could see from the web page above am not
getting any younger and you can imagine i have no much time to live
although am a Billionaire Investor and we have helped some charity
organizations from our Fund for the past years.

Much of the money has been shared to our immediate family members
before deciding to donate the remaining of the Billions to other
individuals around the world, the local fire department, the red
cross, Haiti, hospitals, and some other organizations in Asia and
Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the
funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation.

I have kept just 40% of the entire sum for my self for the remaining
days because I am old and very sick, To facilitate the payment process
of the funds ($1,500,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to
you, you are to send us

Your Full Name:
Your Contact Address:
Name of City of Residence:
Country of Residence:
Direct Mobile Telephone Number:
Your Marital Status:
Your Age and Occupation:

So that I can forward your payment information to you immediately, I
am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and
judiciously over there in your country, Please, you have to do your
part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as
many you can help once you have this money in your personal account
because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in
the first place, I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this
services as we will not be involved in any fraudulent act and will
never be.

Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people this
time of the year, We have too much to give away as I only have a few
months left on earth. I will advise you as the prospective lucky
Person to be calm not to lose this great opportunity which millions of
people are trying to entangle but the chances just couldn't come for
them because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they
don't know how it works, and have never seen such before.

Thank you for accepting our offer,

Best Regards.
Mr. Bernard Arnault.

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