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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: WILLIAM ROGERS <tomeodike@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jamesdonaldson930@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:45:09 -0800
Subject: Greetings

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BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.



Dear Online Lottery Winner
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness
Promotion Department of the BMW AUTOMOBILE PROMOTION congratulate you on
your success as one of our TEN(10) STAR PRIZE WINNER in this year'
International Awareness Promotion (IAP) 2021 held in USA.

Your email address was randomly selected along with nine others from a
database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from the WORLD-WIDE-WEB.
This makes you the proud owner cash prize of (1,200,000 USD)One
million two Hundred
thousand dollar and BMW 6Xjeep.

Agents Name: Diplomat James Donaldson
Contact Him For Claim; jamesdonaldson930@gmail.com
Phone number/ whatsapp; +1 (346) 708-4736

Winning Parameters:
TICKET NO: 8603657824738
REF NO: 220-86957
BATCH NO: 2011MTL-03

Also provide listed information below for the payment of this Winning prize
Names==================
Address=================
Age=====================
Sex=====================
Occupation===============
Phone no================
Country=================

Please you are to provide him with the above listed details as soon as
Possible
so he can begin with the processing of your prize winnings.Congratulations
again from all our staffs and the director of BMW AUTOMOBILE lottery


Sincerely Yours
Dr William Rogers
Award Notification Team.

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