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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. Willem Badenhorst.<info@yahoo.org>
Reply-To: williebadenhorst151@gmail.com
Date: 10 Nov 2021 09:54:46 +0800
Subject: TREAT AS CONFIDENTIAL

Dear,

I wish you will attend to this mail urgently.

I am the Deputy Luggage Inspector at Los Angeles International
Airport (LAX), California.

We received some yet to be cleared deliveries from other
international airports in the country for sorting and eventual
confiscation / destruction since most of them have stayed more
than a year without claimant / clearance. And in my routine high-
tech pre-scanning to ascertain their real content, the scan
result of one gray colored case with scanty report that it
contains personal effects, turned out to be containing cash money
to my consternation.

To confirm the authenticity of the cash in the box, I have
already made a lot of expenses to confirm from a specialist in
the Federal Reserve Bank that the result of the scan was
authentic $100 notes.

I hope to hear immediately from you, to tell you more, and let's
have a mutual beneficial deal to clear the luggage.

This mail should be treated with utmost confidentiality because
the information I am sharing with you is only known between the
two of us now.
The Federal Reserve Bank expert that confirmed the scan result
does not know me in person, neither does he know where I work or
where the scan came from since I used coded coordinates to
interact with and pay him.

Note that by next week, if no one claims it, for onward delivery,
it will be turned over to the Treasury Department for
confiscation.

Let me hear urgently from you for more details.


williebadenhorst151@gmail.com
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Willem Badenhorst.
(213 352 5615)

Note: I might not pick your call without getting your response.
You can as well send text message with your details.

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