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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.AILEEN BILLANES" <mrsaileenbillanes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:19:30 +0100
Subject: GOOD NEWS

Hello Dear,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting my funds
transferred to a Swiss Account under the cooperation of a new partner
from BRAZIL.Presently I'm move to BRAZIL this night around 5 am my
local time for me to undergo a major cancer operation which is
scheduled to be hold next week Thursday,for my surgery, in BRAZIL and
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 those funds despite that it failed us somehow. Now
contact my Pastor Samma williams in Cote d'Ivoire,

His name is Pastor Samma Williams
EMAIL: pastorsamma03@yahoo.com

Contact him and ask him to send you the total of $500.000.00 (Five
hundred thousand USD) ATM CARD which I kept for your compensation for
all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get
in touched with my (Pastor Samma Williams) 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 sufferer at
thattime. in the moment,Do send to (Pastor Samma Williams), your
contact details.

Your full name .................
Your address:....................
Your country:....................
Your Phone number:...............

To enable him submit your details to paying bank, For the moment, I am
very busy here because of the investment projects which me and my new
partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction to my Pastor on your behalf to receive that ATM CARD, Now
get in touch with him (Pastor Samma Williams)and he will send the ATM
to you immediately, I will not be able to check my email again because
i will be busy when i arrive BRAZIL Tomorrow morning for my surgery

Thanks and God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Aileen Billanes

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