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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: "Dr Tedros Adhanom" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tedros_consultant@vipmail.hu>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:32:35 +0100
Subject: Respond ASAP

Greetings

I wish to officially inform you that due to the effect of the global pandemic (Covid-19) which has affected the global world economy and as well the lost of life's of people, therefore the World Health Organization (W.H.O) has authorized the immediate release of $2.5million each to various individuals across the world to be used to boost the business/companies as part of the WHO palliative funds measure to aid boost the businesses and also funds can used to help the poor around your locality as an accredited beneficiaries whose emails were provided by Microsoft and selected randomly to be beneficiaries of this funds since the World Health Organization can not be present everywhere to provide these funds the world citizenry.

Once you have received your funds you are expected to offer adequate palliatives to the less privileged people around you who one way or the other lost their loved once or their business a a results of the devastating effect of the various which caused a locked down hence affect the normal activities of individuals and businesses.

Kindly accept our warm and passionate offer and promote your business and offer palliative to people around you and the good lord will bless you greatly as you partner with the who to heal the wounds on the populace and as well invest in business to revive the economy as lots of people lost jobs to the pandemic

You are hereby advised to respond swiftly with the following information so it can be documented and forwarded to the accredited bank to effect the release of the funds within the shortest possible time

1. Full Name
2. full Residential Address and country
3. Occupation
4. Phone number
5. copy of identity card


Awaiting your urgent correspondence to enable us deliver on our promise to help boost the welfare and healthcare in our bid to sustain development.


Congratulations !!!

Yours Faithfully,
Dr Tedros Adhanom
Consultant(WHO)

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