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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 Ibhem Ahmed <ibhemahmed18@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 02:01:16 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend.


Compliments of the day with your entire family, I'm happy to inform you
about my success in getting the fund transferred under the co-operation of
a new partner from Egypt Presently i am in Egypt for investment projects
with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past
efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that
it failed us some how.

Now contact western union agent through their email address,her name is ms
Konditamde Faridatou,Email
Address: westerunion.transferoffice2021@gmail.com ask her to send you the
total sum of($3.500.000.00usd) which I kept for your compensation for all
the past efforts in attempts to assist me in this matter.I appreciated your
efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get in touched with Ms
Konditamde Faridatou and instruct her where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately when you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferings that time, in the moment I am very busy
here because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are
having at hand, finally remember that I had forwarded instruction to the
western union on your behalf to receive that money,so feel free to get in
touch with her at above email address and she will send the amount to you
without any delay.
Click here to track the payment.

https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/self-service/app/tracktransfer
PAYMENT N°1
MTCN:1111573047
Best regards,

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