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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: Efgb <jeffjphnson08@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info658@daum.net
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:40:39 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT CODE XXXX

Sir,
Did you see my mail of last week government and authority of this
country have come for confiscated of your funds plus intrestds because of
lack of legal documents from you, they are coming back again next week, i
want if you are ready to have your funds get back quickly before they come
for this funds,
Kindly specify the Method that suits you most, do not expose my
information I D card this is to avoid hacking from bad eggs not to hacks
our information's keep within yourself ad secret,
from today this is our code XXXX CODE any mail you receive from
anybody without this code do not respond please, do send me your Id card i
can know your face, the attach atm card is sample of our bank card, that
one of our customer have received his atm card last week, please bear with
us our email bank on Maintenance sever customercare@efglprivate.com soon
it will be working.

If you are ready to have your interests funded let me know. do reconform
your information once more.

Regards,
JEFF JOHNSON
.FGLB Private Limited
744 090 390
0800 897680
Primary Email jeffjphnson08@gmail.com
Customer Care info658@daum.net
Leconfield House Curzon Street London, W1J 5JB
United Kingdomize you did receveda all my mail

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