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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.Bernard Arnault" <morganhenry71@gmail.com>
Reply-To: baamault01@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 13:49:25 +0100
Subject: Re:Greetings To You And Your Family


( URGENT REPLY BEFORE IS LATE)
Note: If you found this email in your junk/spam, its because of your
internet isp server.


Congratulations,You have been gifted $1.5 Million United State Dollars in
2020 Donation Funds,Contact us at this email for your claim: (
baamault01@gmail.com )

Dear Lucky Winner with great hope this massage will reach you and your
entire family in a very good health condition as I know you will be curious
to know why you were selected to receive a cash sum of $1,500,000,00 USD.

I Mr.Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault a French business magnate, An investor
and art collector, I am the chairman and chief Executive officer of LVMH,
The world's largest luxury-goods company, I am mapping out this donation
funds every year to 20 countries all over the world where our company is
been located in the world.

I decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000,00 USD to you as part of our
charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all over the
world from our ($16.5 Billion) United State Dollars Mapped for the on going
2020 Donation.All lucky winners were random selected from Microsoft email
owners list as to make sure this put on in the internet for the world to
see, I have decided to do one thing I promised God forever as you could see
from the web page above am not getting any younger and you can imagine i
have no much time to live although am a Billionaire Investor and we have
helped some charity organizations from our Fund for the past years.

Much of the money has been shared to our immediate family members before
deciding to donate the remaining of the Billions to other individuals
around the world, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti,
hospitals, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight
cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with
our payout bank of this charity donation.

I have kept just 40% of the entire sum for my self for the remaining days
because I am old and very sick, To facilitate the payment process of the
funds ($1,500,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to
send us

Your Full Name:
Your Contact Address:
Name of City of Residence:
Country of Residence:
Direct Mobile Telephone Number:
Your Marital Status:
Your Age and Occupation:

So that I can forward your payment information to you immediately, I am
hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over
there in your country, Please, you have to do your part to also alleviate
the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you
have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective
of donating this money to you in the first place, I like to re-assure you
of the legitimacy of this services as we will not be involved in any
fraudulent act and will never be.

Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people this time
of the year, We have too much to give away as I only have a few months left
on earth. I will advise you as the prospective lucky Person to be calm not
to lose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to
entangle but the chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of
people are out there to discourage them as they don't know how it works,
and have never seen such before.

Thank you for accepting our offer,

Best Regards.
Mr.Bernard Arnault.

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