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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: "MR. WILLIAM HOWELL" <eewebname@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officefileritainfo@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:08:08 +0100
Subject: I DIDN'T FORGET YOUR PAST EFFORTS

From: William Howell

Dear Good Friend,

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Indonesia.
Presently I am in Tokyo Japan for investment projects with my own
share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn’t forget you’re past efforts
and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it
failed us some how. Now contact my Lawyer in London, United Kingdom
his name is Charles Oxford.

Barr. Charles Oxford
Email: charles.oxxfordx@hotmail.com
Tel: +447 452 036 815

Contact him, to send you total of $800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) that I kept as compensation for your past
efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your
efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with
my Lawyer Charles Oxford and instruct him where to send the amount to
you. Kindly let me know immediately you receive the funds so that we
can share the joy after all the frustrated experiences we had at that
time. Do send to Barr. Charles Oxford, your contact details:

Your Full Name….........
Your Address…...........
Cell Number…............
Your occupation.........
Your Age…...............

To enable him submit your details to my paying Monzo Bank London, to
wire your compensation fund to your nominated bank account/Bank Check
or they can send to you an authorized bank ATM Master Card to your
address for you to withdraw the money from any bank ATM machine in
your country.

In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects
which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember
that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to
receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Barr. Charles
Oxford he will send the amount to you with out any delay.

Thanks and God bless you.

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