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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: "Thomas Yi" <inspektorat@tebingtinggikota.go.id>
Reply-To: thomasyidp@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:28:03 -0700
Subject:

Dear Email Owner,
My name is Thomas Yi, I am 23 years old from Land O' Lakes, Florida USA. On March 27th, 2021, I was declared the winner of $235 Million Dollars which is one of the largest Powerball jackpot in history of Florida State.My family and I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $500,000.00 USD to your email ID, this being part of our 2021 Millionaire Donation Project to financially support seven(7) lucky people and ten(10) charity organizations from different parts of the world. Please follow the News Link below for more info;

https://www.fox13news.com/news/23-year-old-land-o-lakes-man-wins-235-million-powerball-jackpot

Kindly send your *Full Names:..,*Tel:..*Age:..*Country:..and we will instruct our payout Bank to release the sum of $500,000.00 USD to you so that you can begin the charitable work in your state and country.
Thomas Yi

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