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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: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus <homlandsec1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ofile8385@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:05:58 +0100
Subject: RE: YOUR CORVID19 PALLIATIVE/DONATION

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Kind Attn,

Following the outbreak and subsequent spread of the new coronavirus
pandemic globally, our consortium of World Health Organization, a
specialized agency of the United Nations in collaboration with the new
Administration of President Joe Biden Jr of United States of America,
have come together to compensate the poor, needy, widows orphans and
the downtroddens as we take new measure with the vaccine to control
the spread of the virus.

As one of the directors based in UK, I am fronting on behalf of World
Health Organization to contact you as you have been selected to
benefit from this compensation scheme In the light of the above, the
sum of (TEN MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) has
been approved as compensation for procurement of food, drugs, and
other relief materials to assist the affected victims brothers,
sisters, wives husbands, children, fathers and mothers who may have
been affected by coronavirus infection. We have similar compensations
to the USA, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Spain and 54 Nations in Africa.

Revert back to us with full name, address and mobile number for
further details. Contact us via this mail ID for confirmation and
validity of your email address: ofile8385@outlook.com

You must show your seriousness and must be a law abiding citizen in
order to achieve this one goal. remember together we can do it.

Warmest Regards,
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,(Director),
World Health Organization
COVID -19 Compensation Scheme

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