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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: "Mrs.Rose Kelly" <paulokoye227@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rosekelly255@aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 08:23:50 -0800
Subject: To the rightful owner of the fund,

To the rightful owner of the fund,

In accordance to my religious persuasion, I felt expedient to write and
inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched by the duo of Mr.Eric Robinson
and Mr. Lanre Williams of the Ministry of Finance and some of the Finance
Ministry staffs to divert your money to their designated account in
Europe.From my position as a lowly clerk in this office, I discovered that
they moved the fund from Africa to London, UK and then moved it last week
to Banco Italiano in ITALY. Today I found out through the Central computer
database that they are about to re-route your funds to a security company
in the USA. With this, I felt that it is important for me to alert you on
this development. They are still using your name and contract/inheritance
identification number as the beneficiary but they have changed the account
co-ordinate and this is the reason they are frustrating you by asking for
endless fees in order to buy time pending on when they will transfer your
funds to their designated account in Cayman Islands.

I have the reference number of the transaction and also I have the number
of the official who is directly in charge at the SECURITY COMPANY in the
USA. Your payment is supposed to go through the UK credit control financial
clearing house before final Lodging into the security company there in the
USA. All the data about your claim profile are within my reach. I do not
need gratification from you either in cash or kind. I can never be a part
of evil. Please respect my discretion in this matter, you can send an email
to me so that I can give you the reference number and the name and contact
information of the official of the security company in the USA.

I repeat, please do not expose my personality, it is not easy to get jobs
around here and I cannot contend with these powerful individuals because
they can eliminate me just like that. reply to me through this email (
rosekelly255@aol.com) if you are interested in getting your long overdue
payment.

God bless you,
Mrs.Rose Kelly

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