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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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Fraud email example:

From: Allen and Violet Large <unations226@gmail.com>
Reply-To: allenlarge388@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:43:45 -0800
Subject: Greetings my beloved friend,

Greetings my beloved friend,

I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to
know why/how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $2,000,000 USD,
our information below is 100% legitimate, please see the link below:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/violet-large-gave-away-her-lottery-windfall/article2119137/

My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $2,000,000 USD to you as
part of our charity project to improve the lot of 10 lucky individuals
all over the world from our $11.3 million Jackpot Lottery winning
fund. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance because
i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you.
Violet my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the
internet for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died last
year July 16 at colchester regional hospital in truro, my wife just
didn't die but she was a great person and I miss her so much and this
is why I have decided to do one thing i promised her forever. as you
could see from the web page above, am not getting any younger and you
can imagine having no kids at this age. although we won this lottery
funds 2 years ago and we have helped some charity organizations from
our winnings.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members,
Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of the $11million
to other individuals around the world in need, the local fire
department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in truro where violet
underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia
and Europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of
the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation. we
have kept just 2% of the entire lottery sum to our self for the
raining day.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($2,000,000 USD) which
have been donated solely to you, you are to send us your fullnames for
payment,your contact/address and your personal-telephone-number, so
that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am
hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously
over there in your country. please have to do you part to also
alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can
help once you have this money in your personal account because that is
the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as we will
not be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be, we only want
to feel good by helping people this time of the year, this is the only
thing that makes my wife happy too even now that she is not here with
me anymore, we have too much to give away as I only have few years
left on earth. I will advise as you as the prospective lucky winners
to be calm not to loose this great opportunity which millions of
people are trying to entangled but the chances just couldn't come for
them because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they
don't know how it works, and have never seen such before. Kindly
revert back to us for your claim through our direct private email
address: allenlarge388@gmail.com OR allenlarge388@gmail.com

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful.
God bless you
Allen and Violet Large

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