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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: "Fidelta.eu" <fidelta.forms@selvita.com>
Reply-To: xxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:22:42 +0000
Subject: Your webinar from fidelta.eu

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Simple Transactional Email</title>
<style>
/* -------------------------------------
GLOBAL RESETS
------------------------------------- */

/*All the styling goes here*/

img {
border: none;
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
max-width: 100%;
}

body {
background-color: #f6f6f6;
font-family: sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
font-size: 16px;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.4;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

table {
border-collapse: separate;
mso-table-lspace: 0pt;
mso-table-rspace: 0pt;
width: 100%; }
table td {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
vertical-align: top;
}

/* -------------------------------------
BODY & CONTAINER
------------------------------------- */

.body {
background-color: #f6f6f6;
width: 100%;
}

/* Set a max-width, and make it display as block so it will automatically stretch to that width, but will also shrink down on a phone or something */
.container {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto !important;
/* makes it centered */
max-width: 580px;
padding: 10px;
width: 580px;
}

/* This should also be a block element, so that it will fill 100% of the .container */
.content {
box-sizing: border-box;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align:center;
max-width: 580px;
padding: 10px;
}

/* -------------------------------------
HEADER, FOOTER, MAIN
------------------------------------- */
.main {
background: #ffffff;
border-radius: 3px;
width: 100%;
}

.wrapper {
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 20px;
}

.content-block {
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
}

.footer {
clear: both;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}
.footer td,
.footer p,
.footer span,
.footer a {
color: #999999;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
}

/* -------------------------------------
TYPOGRAPHY
------------------------------------- */
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4 {
color: #000000;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.4;
margin: 0;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}

h1 {
font-size: 35px;
font-weight: 300;
text-align: center;
text-transform: capitalize;
}

p,
ul,
ol {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
p li,
ul li,
ol li {
list-style-position: inside;
margin-left: 5px;
}

a {
color: #3498db;
text-decoration: underline;
}

/* -------------------------------------
BUTTONS
------------------------------------- */
.btn {
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100%; }
.btn > tbody > tr > td {
padding-bottom: 15px; }
.btn table {
width: auto;
}
.btn table td {
background-color: #ffffff;
border-radius: 5px;
text-align: center;
}
.btn a {
background-color: #ffffff;
border: solid 1px #3498db;
border-radius: 5px;
box-sizing: border-box;
color: #3498db;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0;
padding: 12px 25px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: capitalize;
}

.btn-primary table td {
background-color: #3498db;
}

.btn-primary a {
background-color: #3498db;
border-color: #3498db;
color: #ffffff;
}

/* -------------------------------------
OTHER STYLES THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL
------------------------------------- */
.last {
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.first {
margin-top: 0;
}

.align-center {
text-align: center;
}

.align-right {
text-align: right;
}

.align-left {
text-align: left;
}

.clear {
clear: both;
}

.mt0 {
margin-top: 0;
}

.mb0 {
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.preheader {
color: transparent;
display: none;
height: 0;
max-height: 0;
max-width: 0;
opacity: 0;
overflow: hidden;
mso-hide: all;
visibility: hidden;
width: 0;
}

.powered-by a {
text-decoration: none;
}

hr {
border: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #f6f6f6;
margin: 20px 0;
}

/* -------------------------------------
RESPONSIVE AND MOBILE FRIENDLY STYLES
------------------------------------- */
@media only screen and (max-width: 620px) {
table[class=body] h1 {
font-size: 28px !important;
margin-bottom: 10px !important;
}
table[class=body] p,
table[class=body] ul,
table[class=body] ol,
table[class=body] td,
table[class=body] span,
table[class=body] a {
font-size: 16px !important;
}
table[class=body] .wrapper,
table[class=body] .article {
padding: 10px !important;
}
table[class=body] .content {
padding: 0 !important;
}
table[class=body] .container {
padding: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
table[class=body] .main {
border-left-width: 0 !important;
border-radius: 0 !important;
border-right-width: 0 !important;
}
table[class=body] .btn table {
width: 100% !important;
}
table[class=body] .btn a {
width: 100% !important;
}
table[class=body] .img-responsive {
height: auto !important;
max-width: 100% !important;
width: auto !important;
}
}

/* -------------------------------------
PRESERVE THESE STYLES IN THE HEAD
------------------------------------- */
@media all {
.ExternalClass {
width: 100%;
}
.ExternalClass,
.ExternalClass p,
.ExternalClass span,
.ExternalClass font,
.ExternalClass td,
.ExternalClass div {
line-height: 100%;
}
.apple-link a {
color: inherit !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
font-size: inherit !important;
font-weight: inherit !important;
line-height: inherit !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
#MessageViewBody a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: inherit;
font-family: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
line-height: inherit;
}
.btn-primary table td:hover {
background-color: #34495e !important;
}
.btn-primary a:hover {
background-color: #34495e !important;
border-color: #34495e !important;
}
}

</style>
</head>
<body class="">
<span class="preheader">File from Selvita.com</span>
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="body">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td class="container">
<div class="content">

<!-- START CENTERED WHITE CONTAINER -->
<table role="presentation" class="main">

<!-- START MAIN CONTENT AREA -->
<tr>
<td class="wrapper">
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<p style="font-weight:bold, font-size:18px">Hi 🤍 Rachel want to meet you! Click here: https://telegra.ph/insta-sex-04-14?pvg 🤍,</p>
<p style="font-weight:bold, font-size:18px">Thank you for your interest. After clicking the button below you should be redirected to view webinar.</p>
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="btn btn-primary">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> <a href="" target="_blank">View webinar</a> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Good luck! Hope it works.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

<!-- END MAIN CONTENT AREA -->
</table>
<!-- END CENTERED WHITE CONTAINER -->



</div>
</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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