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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: "Mr. Allen Large" <ofjusticenigeriaf@gmail.com>
Reply-To: allenlarge765@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:12:08 -0800
Subject: Greetings to You this is very important

Greetings to You

I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to
know why/how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $2,000,000 USD,
our information below is

100% legitimate, please see the link below:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/violet-large-gave-away-her-lottery-windfall/article2119137/

My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $2,000,000 USD to you as
part of our charity project to improve the lot of 10 lucky individuals
all over the world from our

$11.3 million Jackpot Lottery winning fund. We prayed and searched
over the internet for assistance because i saw your profile on
Microsoft email owners list and

picked you. Violet my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put
on the internet for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died
last year July 16 at

colchester regional hospital in truro, my wife just didn't die but she
was a great person and I miss her so much and this is why I have
decided to do one thing i

promised her forever. as you could see from the web page above, am not
getting any younger and you can imagine having no kids at this age.
although we won this lottery

funds 2 years ago and we have helped some charity organizations from
our winnings.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members,
Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of the $11million
to other individuals around

the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti,
hospitals in truro where violet underwent her cancer treatment, and
some other organizations in

Asia and Europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes and the
bulk of the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity
donation. we have kept just 2% of

the entire lottery sum to our self for the raining day.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($2,000,000 USD) which
have been donated solely to you, you are to send us your full names
for payment, your contact

address and your personal telephone number, so that i can forward your
payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be
able to use the money

wisely and judiciously over there in your country. please have to do
you part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help
as many you can help once you

have this money in your personal account because that is the only
objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as we will
not be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be, we only want
to feel good by helping

people this time of the year, this is the only thing that makes my
wife happy too even now that she is not here with me anymore, we have
too much to give away as I

only have few years left on earth. I will advise as you as the
prospective lucky winners to be calm not to loose this great
opportunity which millions of people are

trying to entangled but the chances just couldn't come for them
because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they don't
know how it works, and have

never seen such before. Kindly revert back to us for your claim
through our direct private email address: allenlarge765@gmail.com

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful.
God bless you
Mr. Allen Large,

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