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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 Christopher Wray <mj493747@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fbi-department@post.cz
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 05:12:44 -0600
Subject: your ATM CARD

Good day this is Mr Christopher Wray

I'm contacting you this morning because the director of the ATM CARD center
here in USA said that they will divert your ATM CARD to the
Government Treasury just because that you cannot pay for the service fee of
your ATM CARD

But I told them to wait until I hear from you today so that I will know the
reason why you rejected such amount of money that worth sum of 10.5m
just because of the deliver fee

Mr Christopher Wray

Contact my number +1 717 281 6319

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