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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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Fraud email example:

From: Sergei Symonenko <lsanusioffce@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sjeanpauloffice@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:42:50 -0800
Subject: Re: URGENT ASSISTANCE

Good Day to You.

Greetings!

I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to
secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with you in your
country ,I feel confident therefore to introduce myself and this offer
to you based on this problem of war in my country Ukraine. I have a
substantial capital I honorably intend to invest in your country into
a very lucrative and profitable business venture of which you are to
advise and execute the said venture over there for the mutual benefits
of both of us.

I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity I
would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. Well my
name is Sergei Symonenko the only surviving son of Mr.Petro Symonenko
a diamond dealer from Donetsk, Ukrain. My father is now late he died
last week during the Russian forces bombing and shelling all the
various location in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was amoung the 21 people
killed in shelling of Kharkiv as Russian forces intensified their
bombardment of Ukraine's second largest city, including residential
areas and the regional administration building killed at least 21
people and wounded 112 on Wednesday March 2nd, 2022. Feel free to
visit the site below:
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-02/at-least-21-killed-112-wounded-in-shelling-of-kharkiv-ukrainian-official..
The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance
in the area of my future investment and also for a help hand over some
huge amount of money he left behind. This money US$12.5 Million
(Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only is
deposited in a Diplomatic Storage Unit in Paris, France for safe
keeping some years ago by my father and he made me the sole
beneficiary. I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to claim the
deposit from the Diplomatic Storage Unit and assist me on investing it
as well in your country. I have made up my mind to offer you 30% of
the total sum and also map out 5% for any expenses that will be made
during the transaction while the remaining will go into investment and
my use.

Moreover, I have defected to Stockholm in Sweden as a refugee asylum
for the safety of my life due to the war in my country until I am able
to secure relocation to your country upon conclusion of this
transaction. As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to
this issue to be well known to you if I am given the opportunity to do
so in my next message .Please you are urgently required to furnish me
with your direct and full information's such as your full name,
physical address, mobile phone number and copy of your identification
for further directives and advice. I believe we are not known to each
other before but I strongly believe that through this transaction we
would be able to forge a mutually beneficial relationship between us,
now and in the future. Finally, be aware the success of this
transaction will depend to a great extent of mutual trust, secrecy and
Confidentiality from you. I await your swift response to my e-mail:
sjeanpauloffice@gmail.com and you can also call me on :+46738947037.
Thanks and God Bless.

Best regards,

Sergei Symonenko

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