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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. DAVID ANDERSON"
Reply-To: <stevendwell542@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:48:43 +0500
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary......

CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
FACEBOOK PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
WINNING NUMBER: ISTMRP/017/3076975
REFERENCE NUMBER: EALP/66-CAW076975
 
Attention: Beneficiary,
 
We are pleased to announce to you, that you are one of the 50 lucky winners in the FACEBOOK MEGA REWARD PROMO draw, which held on 14th of January, 2022 in United States of America. This reward program is held annually in promoting Facebook Network as the world's leading social networks. All 50 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 10,000,000.00 international Facebook account users. Your Facebook account has emerged alongside 50 others Facebook users as lucky winners in the Facebook Promo draw.
 
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of ($500,000.00 us dollars) Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars only. Please contact the under listed Facebook fiduciary agent as soon as possible for confirmation and immediate release of your winning fund.
 
FIDUCIARY AGENT CONTACT INFORMATION:
Name: Mr. Steven Dwell, PROMO DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.
Email: ( stevendwell542@gmail.com )
 
For speedy processing of your winning claim as a winner, please include the following information below in your mail to the fiduciary agent and make sure you use your winning number as the subject to avoid delay of your claim:
 
BENEFICIARY FULL NAME, RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, COUNTRY, EMAIL ADDRESS, AGE, TEL NUMBER AND OCCUPATION.
 
Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 
DR. DAVID ANDERSON
FACEBOOK PROMO COORDINATOR,
FACEBOOK © 2022.

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