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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: Andriy and Bohdana Shevchenko <cattristeng@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ifyroyal2@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:22:13 +0000
Subject: We are from Ukraine, we need your help


Greetings to You Sir

Our names Andriy and Bohdana Shevchenko, I am 16 years and my brother is 14
years, we are the only surviving family of Mr.Shevchenko from Ukraine.

I and my brother was in School in Myanmar before the political crisis in my
country Afghanistan which unfortunately it claimed the life of our beloved
ones and living us in this frustrating / painful condition, our father was
having a business in Myanmar while our mother was working in Afghanistan.

So when the political crisis started in Ukraine we and our father traveled
back to see our mother and one day I went out with my sister to see a
distance relative in another town and when we came back we find out that
our parents died in Bomb blast by the Russian’s.

Please listen to this and try to keep it to yourself only, before the death
of our parents my Father deposited some money and gold in a security house
here in Cambodia without any next of kin, the money is huge and in USD$ and
also a large quantity of gold which I will disclose to you as soon as I
hear from you.

After the death of our parents I and my Brother traveled back to Cambodia
with all the documents concerning deposit and when we get to the security
house we meet with the manager and tender all the documents to him, the
manager examined all the documents and confirms that our claims are true.

He told us that we cannot make direct claim because our names are not in
the paper as the next of kin and we are still under age, the manager
advised us to go and look for a foreign beneficiary who can stand for me as
my late father business partner so that the fund can be release, so I told
the manager that I will contact my father business partner to come and
assist us but the truth is that we don’t know any of my father’s business
partner to contact..

I am contacting and pleading with you to come and stand as my late father’s
business partner so that they can release the funds to us.

I want you to tell me how many % that you will like to take from the total
amount.

Kind Regards,

Andriy and Bohdana Shevchenko,

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