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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: "Mrs. Elizabeth Janet" <ezenick74@gmail.com>
Reply-To: manager20_1@outlook.com
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 21:24:49 -0700
Subject: CONTACT THEIR OFFICE IMMEDIATELY

Hello Dear Beneficiary

Greetings From New The Department of Homeland Security This is Mr
alejandro mayorkas I'm here to inform you that your ATM Card of $5.5
million USD has been approved and was deposited with delivery company
this morning for registration, and we agreed up that the delivery of
Your $5.5 Million USD ATM Package will take off tomorrow morning .So
contact me with your full info where your ATM card will be delivered
to you, Remember that you will pay delivery fee.

We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to
pay you, your over due Winning Prize / inheritance fund which you
could not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin
code through the Digitized Payment System. And you have spent a lot of
money and a lot time sending money to different people just to make
sure you receive your fund and after set and done your received
nothing.

The ATM VISA Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLDWIDE.
The ATM VISA CARD is credited with the sum of $ 5.500.000.00 united
states dollars, it is already loaded on the Master Card which you can
use to access your fund in any ATM machine worldwide and we have
concluded delivery arrangement with the below courier services
companies and their delivery time is stated below.

We have decided to pay your funds through (ATM VISA Card) This
arrangement was initiated / constituted by the World Bank, United
Nation and Bank of America, due to fraudulent activities going on
within the world, The World Bank, United Nations and Bank of America
introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our Contract, Winning
Prize, inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any
interference

1; FedEx = 12hrs($ 250, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $ 250)
2; DHL = 24hrs($ 160, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $ 160)
3; UPS = 72hrs($ 100, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $ 100)

Full name---------
Mobile Number:--------------
Your email-------
Your delivery address: Occupation:----------------------
Country-------------------
Nearest Airport __

To enable the delivery proceed immediately today, Note that you will
be liable to pay the delivery fee of the ATM VISA Card with any of the
above courier company of your choice before the delivery will take
place to your destination address, Kindly provide them with the below
details in your response to this email address:
manager20_1@outlook.com let them know which courier company you would
want them to use for the shipment of your ATM VISA Card to you. kindly
reconfirm your delivery address to avoid delivery your package to the
wrong person.

Urgent get back to me with your full address where your ATM card will
be delivered to because i will not be in the office next week:

Best Regards,
Mrs. Elizabeth Janet
Email address:(manager20_1@outlook.com)

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