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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: Bank Australia <martinkevin0032@gmail.com>
Reply-To: commonwealthaustralia770@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:59:49 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT

Attention Lukas Muff

RE: INSTRUCTION TO TRANSFER OVER DUE PAYMENT

This is to inform you that this office did received payment advice
from The world bank, United Nation and IMF to pay to you the total
amount of $60 million dollars, A final approval has been given to your
claim and your funds have been transferred to common wealth bank
Australia who has the final authority to transfer out such amount of
fund.

You are required to forward with immediate effect the following
information to enable us carry out this transfer to your account
within the next 48hours. forward as a matter of urgency the following:

FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS.
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:
MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION:

We await your urgent response

David Cruz

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