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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: JOSEPH PRAAISE <praaisejoseph@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:10:08 -0700
Subject: I have the full info's !

Greetings dear,

Please, I want to introduce myself, my name is Mr. Ken Ajovi, account
manager in the African Development Bank. I wish to know if we can work
together, during auditing I discovered a domiciliary account with a
balance of 14 Million US Dollars and 70 Kg of Gold bars that belongs to one
of our foreign customers who died Misfortunately on Covid-19. I contacted
you because you are a foreigner and therefore can present you as the
beneficiary to the inheritance so long as we have backup ,that will
convince the bank as the claimant. If you are interested, kindly get back
to me, so as to enable me to give you more comprehensive details regarding
this project.

Regards and thanks for your understanding.

Mr. Joseph Praaise

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