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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.Antonia Yacouba" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pierrerevdaline@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:50:40 -0700
Subject: From Rev Daline Pierre

Hello My Dear.
 
   How are you doing today? I hope you are doing fine.
 
Please, bear with me; this is RevDaline Pierre. The Rev who witnessed how the inheritance money was offered to you by this late cancer woman.
    Well, I know you must have been emailing me but the message will not go through due to the Problem  I have with my private email, I was hacked  by internet hackers who want to claim this money because they know that  the woman who left this money with this bank is dead already.
 
    They hacked into my private email trying to hack the transaction which you and I are into, so I have to inform yahoo to close my email and also informed the bank not to release the money to anybody, meanwhile it will not be release to anybody because when the woman was about to gave up she place the money on (High Security Priorities) on  your email address which means that no third party will have access to  the money without the real beneficiary which is you.
 
   So please I will advise you to email me back with this very email  address, so that I will go ahead and give the bank instruction to  release the money as you have chosen,
 
  (pierrerevdaline@gmail.com)
here is my direct contact phone number +1 256 203 0323
Email me back for further details.
 
I will wait for your response.
From Rev Daline Pierre

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