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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: "Ms, Frances & Patrick" <goodwinjosephlee552@gmail.com>
Reply-To: connollyfrances@seznam.cz
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:18:38 -0800
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Congratulations=2C_For_Your_=C2=A3_3=2E000=2E000=2C00_Million_Po?=
=?UTF-8?Q?unds_Donation_=21=21?=

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Congratulations, From Mr. & Mrs. Connolly Family. would like to offer
you this donation of £ 3,000.000 as part of our small contribution to support
the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are the proud winner of the
British Jack Port lottery in January of £ 114,969,775. From the amount
we won, we founded a foundation to help people at of work.

We contacted social media and the major online platform to identify
random people with your email address selected as a benefactor. We
sincerely ask you to be our correspondent to reach other victims near
you by helping with food and drugs and other less privileges to make a
living with part of this donation. Below you will find a link to our
press review of our winning videos and the winning presentation.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46756469


and your bank account details of the account with which you would like
to receive the donation.


Sincerely,
Mrs. Frances Connolly.

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