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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: Mo-Lottery Int'l<tikoedouard5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <co.edwardgrant@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:27:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Lottery Played On The March 26, 2022.

U.S International Lottery Promotion Prize Winning Notification.

Attention Recipient,

We are pleased to notify you about the recent U.S lottery draw of this Date: (Saturday, Mar 26, 2022) This lottery games were conducted through the online "ISP" of the exclusive List Of 250,000 active E-mail Addresses selected online; Fortunately enough, this email address here ( jiri.sabol@tesmail.cz ) happened to be appeared in the first box as the jackpot winner of Three Million Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($3,600,000.00 USD) Saturday, Mar 26, 2022 under the following lottery draw references:

BALLOT No: ---------- 9831/MO22.
BATCH No: ----------- 15500/2022/MO.
JACKPOTS DRAW No: --- (5)(11)(27)(38)(43)(44)
TOTAL AMOUNT WON: --- $3.6 Million  USD

For your confirmations, please visit the U.S-Missouri Lottery website link below to confirm your Draw Number including the date it was played.

Website:  https://www.lotteryusa.com/missouri/lotto/year

Please be informed that the above-mentioned prize has been approved and awarded to you as the rightful beneficiary; We are hereby advising you to urgently contact our licensed representative/payment coordinator, Mr. Edward Grant for further guidelines on how to receive your payment from our recommended paying bank.

 Please, contact him with a copy of your driver's license or your passport copy, your full name and address to enable him process your payment without delay.

Below is the E-mail contact of our representative/payment coordinator:

Contact Person: Mr. Edward Grant
Email:  co.edwardgrant@gmail.com

Promotions Manager.

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