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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: FACEBOOK OFFICE <chaseedmunds7@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lookmanj066@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 22:20:23 -0800
Subject: Dear winner,

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FACEBOOK WORLDWIDE LOTTERY AWARD ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Greetings Winner,

If you are the correct owner of this email address and Telephone
Number? If yes then be glad this day as the result of the FACEBOOK
lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of October 2021,
held in Western Europe has just been released and we are glad to
announce to you that your email address won you the sweepstakes in the
first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of Five Million
Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars(US$5,550,000.00). Your email address was entered for the
online draw on this ticket No: 546-373-66773 and won on this Lucky No:
(14)-(8)-(5)-(19)-(28)-(12)-(30) and Batch Number EUM QY-3LJ4.

On how to receive your won prize of US$5.550,000.00Million. (Five
Million Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only) to
enable Mr.James Curtise ascertain you as the rightful winner and
receiver of the US$3.550,000.00M. and make sure you include the below
listed information by contacted him.

Full Name:……………….
Present Address:…………..
Date Of Birth:……………..
Occupations;………………….
Country Of Origin:…………
Telephone No:…………….
Sex:………………………
Ticket and Lucky No:………………………
Amount you Won,………………………

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering then
know again that this very draw of the Facebook Lottery Organization in
which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email
address draws were thousands of email addresses was collected from
almost all world wide websites and used for the online
draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address came
out among the first Ten (10) which won you the lottery in the first
winnings category and entitles you to claim the US$5,550,000.00
Million US Dollars.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. James Curtise
Tel: +1 (917) 819-1714
Copyright! 2019-2020 The Facebook Corporations Europe

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