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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 Godwin Emefiele <sylvesternosky5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: godwin386617@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:04:24 +0100
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

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CENTRA BANK OF NIGERIA,
OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE,
566 TO 599 VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS NIGERIA.

Dear Beneficiary,

We write to bring to your notice, a man identified as Mr. Thomas
Edward Cork, with address No: 1200 Fitch Way, Sacramento, Ca. 95864
USA, filed an application contrary to claims of your inheritance fund
of $15,000,000.00(Fifteen Million United States Dollars) on your
behalf, due to your health challenge issues at the moment as stated on
the power of attorney he presented.

Therefore, we ask him to return back within 48hours, to enable us to
have a personal confirmation notice from you being the legal
beneficiary of the said fund, before we can release the fund to him as
ratting on the power of attorney he submitted.

We are sorry to have delayed this instruction and transaction till
this moment in giving out this fund, since we must adhere to the
procedures of this honorable Bank. Please, did you sign the power of
Attorney in favor of Mr. Thomas E.Cork, thereby authorizing him to
claim your inheritance fund?

Your confirmation of this information will be appreciated before we
proceed with the fund transfer process. We look forward to

Hearing from you soon.
Best Regards

Yours sincerely
MR. GODWIN EMEFIELE

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