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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. Patrick walker" <jnow0847@gmail.com>
Reply-To: joye9123@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 03:50:45 -0800
Subject: Good Day:

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Attn Dear:

We are writing to remind you about your FUNDS of $65 million USD that
suppose to be deliver to you since, but we did not hear from you for
some days now. As you can

see every agreement how to delivery your FUNDS is already made here .
Now you are the one delaying your funds by not to write back to us .

so i decided to write you through an email for the reconfirmation of
your current address as listed below to enable the package proceed
immediately to your home

address without any further delay.

1. Full name.........
2. Phone number.....
3. Current home address...
4. Occupation....
5. Nearest Airport...
6. All Your E-mail Account..

Get Back to us, For more information .

We need your urgent responds to inform us if you still want your funds
or not, because after meeting hold today in our head office with our
government we concluded

with our federal government that any one who did not write back to us
from now till weekend that person fund will be diverted into our
federal government account.

So quickly get back to us to tell us when you be ready to pick up your funds

Thanks
Mr. Patrick walker

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