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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: "U.S Secretary Of State" <hiprofile@eircom.net>
Reply-To: "U.S Secretary Of State" <secretaryblinken@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:45:40 +0100 (IST)
Subject: Attention beneficiary



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This is to inform you officially that after our investigations with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and other Security Agencies in the Country for this year being 2020, we discovered that you have not received your fund. I have made it my Second first point of call since taking office to settle all Outstanding Payments accrued to Individuals or Corporations with respect to local and overseas contract payment, Debt Rescheduling, and Outstanding Compensation payment and from the record in my file, your outstanding payment is worth $15,500,000.00 (Fifteen million five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which has been loaded into an ATM Visa Card with Bank of America (BOA) that allows you to make a daily maximum withdrawal limit of $20,000 (twenty thousand dollars).

Now, you are required to provide the below information correctly for the immediate delivery of your ATM Visa Card to you.

Full name:
Home address:
Phone number:

We await your response as soon as possible.

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