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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: ConSULT <consultdt0@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 11:50:47 +0000
Subject: Congratulations !!! The Lord Is Good.

Dear Good Friend,

Congratulations !!! The Lord Is Good.

Greetings in the name of the Almighty God , I am happy to inform you
about my success in getting the money transferred under the
cooperation of a new partner from Lome Togo. Presently I am in Moscow-
Russia for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in transferring the money despite the fact that it failed us somehow.

Now contact my personal adviser, his name is Pastor EMMANUEL KONAN, from Togo
And his email address is (pastorkonanemmanuel@gmail.com)
Telephone: +228 99 25 41 30.
Ask him to send you the Amount total $ 750,000.00 (Seven Hundred And
Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) (ATM VISA CARD) which I kept for
your compensation for all the past efforts and attempt to assist me in
this matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and
get in touch with my personal adviser Pastor Emmanuel KONAN, and
instruct him where to send the ATM CARD to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the hardship at that time. in the moment, I am very
busy here because of the investment projects which I and the new
partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction to my adviser on your behalf to send you that money, so
feel free to get in touch with him and he will send the ATM card to
you without any delay.

Do let me know as soon as you receive the card.

Best regards.
Mr David

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