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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 Lote Lyod Kenny <westernuniontransferoffice56@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lots.lyodkenny51@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:40:03 -0700
Subject: Hello Good morning from ROLL ROYCE, here is my number,+18187947574

CONGRATULATIONS FROM COCA COLA COMPANY UNITED KINGDOM PROMOTION AWARDS 2021

Hello Dear How are you doing?I texted you to notify you of the result
of the just concluded annual
final draws held on the (13th of July, 2021) by Coca-Cola in
conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion,
your email and phone number was among the 16 Lucky winners who won A
CHECK of £25 ,000, 000 (twenty five
million Great Britain Pounds
Sterling s) each on the THE COCA’COLA COMPANY PROMOTION However the results
were released on the (13th of Aug, 2021) and your email and phone
number was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2021) and ballot number
(12052021/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of
email addresses and phone numbers from an exclusive list of 30,031
E-mail addresses and phone numbers of individuals and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses and
phone numbers were
assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over
250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming
Board and also Licensed by
the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This
lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
and I was assigned to deliver this Check to you so please kindly get
back to me with the reconfirmation of your full informations such as

YOUR FULL NAME:.........
YOUR AGE:…………………………
YOUR FULL ADDRESS…………
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS…………
PHONE NUMBER:…………
NEXT OF KIN NAME AND PHONE NUMBER :......

I'm patiently waiting for your response so that I can proceed with the
delivery as soon as possible to your Address
Thanks

Yours sincerely
Mr Lote Lyod Kenny

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