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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: FBI <officefinee1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: christopherwraiy01@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 23:10:31 -0700
Subject: DEAR EMAIL OWNER

We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam
Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity
(AU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI. We have been
able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African
countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and
Senegal with cote d'ivoire ) and they are all in Government custody
now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for
Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 10 Lucky people listed around
the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you
because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file
and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been
scammed.

You are therefore being compensated with sum of $2.5M valid into an
(ATM Card Number 4848421013879602)Since your email address is among
the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we have
arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and
deliver to your postal address with the Pin Numbers as to enable you
withdrawal maximum of $2,000 on each withdrawal from any Bank ATM
Machine of your choice, until all the funds are exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you using
Express Mail Service (DHL) .The package is coming from Uganda . don't
forget to reconfirm your following information.

1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card
3. Cell/Mobile Number:
Yours in service,
Mail us:christopherwraiy01@gmail.com
Christopher A Wray

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