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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: "Mrs.Aisha Gddafi" <caruthersisiko@gmail.com>
Reply-To: manager_office@accountant.com
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 13:45:43 +0200
Subject: Good day!

Dear Friend,

How are you and your family? Hope all is well with you all, if so
glory be to ALLAH. For the effort you made trying to help me
accomplish my past deal despite the fact that you gave up on the way
but by the special grace of ALLAH I succeeded with another partner and
I have traveled for establishment.

Meanwhile,I kept Compensation Fund sum of(1000,000.00USD)One Million
usd as compensation for your effort with the western union money
transfer to be transferred to you,$800,000.00usd Eight hundred
thousand dollars for you and your family, while sum of $200.000usd is
for charity works such as orphanage and motherless baby homes in your
country.

This is the reason for the compensation kindly contact them now
because they told me that they will be sending the sum
of($5,000.00usd) five thousand dollars to you everyday until the total
sum is completed; that is the western union maximum sending there. So
feel free to contact the western union with their contact information
listed below, kindly send your details including:

Your full name:…………
Country:……………….
City:………………
Tel:...........

Contact the western union office:

Name: Mrs.Aida Jawad
Post: Foreign Operation Manager
Customer Care Email:westernunionbf@fastservice.com
www.westernunion@westerniunion.com
Address: Av. Du Conseil De L'entente Ouagadougou, Kadiogo 01 BP 4955.

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