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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. SUNG CHO" <lilin@cicl.com.tw>
Reply-To: sungcho598@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:32:51 +0530
Subject: INVITATION PLEASE

CHARITY WORK IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Greetings,

There is a charity project for your community in which you are being
invited to take charge of its execution. Although this may be a little
outside of your core professional area of expertise, however, it is
noteworthy that you are good at strategic planning in finding
solutions to issues of importance, making you worthy of the intended
partnership in a Charity Project for your community. The amount
earmarked for the project is US$15,000,000 and I will furnish you with
further information as soon as you respond to this email that you can
use funds wisely for charity projects. I wait to hear from you soon

Thanks
I remain sincerely yours
Cho Sung

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