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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: "Jerome Sippon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jsipponn@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 04:50:26 -0800
Subject: FROM MR JEROME SIPPON

Contact Person: Mr Jerome Sippon 24/7 Banking 28 Houndsditch, Aldgate, EC3A7LP Theseloniki Greece Personal Email jsipponn@gmail.com STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL Good day sir/madam, Happy new year to you and your family I Presume this message will come to you as a surprise, my name is Jim Gary. I'm working with a finance firm here in Greece, There is EU€65M in our vault ,in which the original owner is dead He was a staff of the Iranian Oil Company UK Ltd a subsidiary of Naftiran Inter trade Company he made a [fixed] for twelve [12] calendar months, valued at EUR 25,000,000..00 {TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES Euros} in our Bank.We sent a routine notification to his Forwarded address and discovered, he died of cancer attack last year. In our bank official Papers we found NEXT OF KIN details as the BENEFICIARY.In light of the above I want your maximum co-operation to claim this fund as the next of kin for business investment between us in your company or country. if you are interested, kindly reply to me through my personal email jsipponn@gmail.com for more information and the procedures to claim the fund, Send me your full names personal telephone numbers and your location. Please acknowledge the receipt of this Electronic mail. i hope that you will find this information useful and helpful Best Regards Jerome Sippon .

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