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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: MONEY GRAM OFFICE <reservebankdirector123@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amandaanne243@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:40:06 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION

--
It is my pleasure to inform you that your funds is deposited in Money Gram
remitting office here and we hereby write to inform you that we have sent
your full compensation payment of $10.5 million dollars through money gram and
you will be receiving $5.0000'00 dollars Per day and we have send you the first
payment.
So contact our money gram agent miss Amanda Anne and ask her to give
you the money
gram payment information so that you can be able to pick up your First
payment of your funds through money gram without any problem.

Contact her with the bellow information
amandaanne243@gmail.com PHONE NUMBER(740)231-2670
AND CONTACT Her WITH YOUR FULL INFORMATION.

1. Full name :
2. Country.:
3. Contact Address.:
4. Telephone Number .
5. Marital Status .
6. Occupation :
7. Company :
8. Age:

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