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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. Paul Edward" <mrpeter10jim10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: stevenwigan@citromail.hu
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:54:47 +0100
Subject: Contact my secretary for your cooperation

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 Indonesia 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 secretary in United States his name
is Steven Wigan


Mr. Steven Wigan
Email: stevenwigan@citromail.hu


Contact him and ask him to send you the total of $2.4million United
States Dollars which I kept 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 Secretary Mr. Steven
Wigan and instruct him where to send the amount to you. Please do let
me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after
all the suffer ness at that time. Do send to Mr. Steven Wigan, your
contact details.


Your Full Names?....
You?re Address?.....
Cell Phone Number?....
Your occupation...
Your Age?....
Your Country

To enable him submit your details to my paying bank the Sun Trust
Banks Georgia, United States to wire your compensation money 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 Mr.Steven Wigan
he will send the amount to you with out any delay.

Thanks and God bless you.
Paul Edward

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