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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: "Mr. Sebastian William." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sebastain.william@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:02:42 -0000
Subject: Bitcoin trading bot that brings Elon Musk from $ 13000 per day

Attn: Friend,

A few weeks ago, Elon Musk, in an interview, accidentally blabbed about a cryptocurrency trading robot that brings him Massive income from $ 13,000 to $ 135,000 per day and asked to remove this moment from the video after filming. https://cfiminer.com/register?ref=elonm432 But the operator who filmed all this remembered the name of the trading robot and tried to make money. On the same day, he made a deposit of $ 500 and launched a trading robot and after 3 hours his account had $ 3750 and a week later $ 563700. On the robot, you earn in the currency of your country, Europe - EUR, Australia - AUD, Canada - CAD, Sweden - SEC and so on. Hurry up to register as after the influx of new users, the administrators decided to stop registering new users from next week. https://cfiminer.com/register?ref=elonm432

Trust you will Thanks Me subsequently for this information.


Regards
Mr. Sebastian William.
International Binary Blogger

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