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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: "Gloria C. Mackenzie" <info@mail.net>
Reply-To: gliamkz26@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 13:17:40 -0800
Subject: Hi

This is Gloria C. Mackenzie, who won the Power ball Jackpot of $590,500.00 Million Dollars on June 5, 2013, my jackpot was a gift from God to me and my entire family, we have agreed to do the will of God. I may not know you, but I believe if you were chosen by God to receive my donation of $1,500,000.00 USD . You must be a God-fearing individual; I am a Catholic and I believe that good things happen to those people who wait and also believe.

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 One Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars, although we know each other for the first time but I believe our father in heaven has directed me to you as I prayed and searched over the internet journals, I saw your profile on a list of registered email addresses provided to me by Microsoft list/Google list from which I picked you.

Be assured you stand no risk as this is my money, for source and verification please see the link below, you can read more about me by Viewing this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/590-million-jackpot-winner_n_3392040.html

I decided to donate part of the money to Individuals and i told some brethren about this, which they said was a welcomed idea and promised they will get me a list of some people who can help others with my donation and put smile in the face of the needy, especially in the time of the global health pandemic. I am currently in India because of my poor health being a cancer patient and ever since l won this lottery different taxes have been falling on me by the US Government, I had to move to the Republic of India for treatment and to avoid paying Tax each week.

My donation of $1.5 Million US Dollars may not be much to you but i believe it will go a long way to improving your standard of living like my Power ball Jackpot did to me, I would like you to fill the below and return back to me and my entire household will be glad for you to visit us after my donation gets to you. Do this on time so you can contact the financial security firm for further directives to receive this donation.

Name:
Address:
Age:
Marital status:
Phone Number:
Occupation:

I do hope that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. As a family, we will urge you to do what you can to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

May the Good lord bless your heart to be a blessing to your family and your society as soon as my donation gets to you.

Hope to read from you soon

Regards,
Gloria C. Mackenzie

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