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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: "pauline.dechaud" <miss.malikagahou222@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pauline.dechaud@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:35:28 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?RG9uYXRpb24g4pyF?=

Greetings my dear, my name is Mrs. Pauline from France, I am an old
Christian widow who is dying of esophageal cancer, I have the sum of
(€3.200.000.00 / Three Million Two Hundred thousand Euros) I inherited
from my late husband which he deposited in a Finance Company in Ivory
Coast where he worked for several years before he died, I want to
donate this money to you for charity, for you to use it to help the
less privileged people affected by the COVID-19 in your Country, fund
churches or mosques, orphanages and to ensure that the house of God is
maintained. I am donating this money to you because I do not have a
child of my own or any relation whose attitude have left me a good
remark so if you are interested to help me carryout this task please
reply me immediately with my Email address below for more information,
may God bless you and your family.

My Email address is: pauline.dechaud@yahoo.com

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亲爱的，您好，我的名字是来自法国的 Pauline 夫人，我是一位即将死于食道癌的基督徒老寡妇，我从已故丈夫那里继承了
(€3.200.000.00 / 三百万二十万欧元)
他存放在科特迪瓦的一家金融公司，在他去世前在那里工作了几年，我想把这笔钱捐给你做慈善，让你用它来帮助你身边受 COVID-19
影响的弱势群体 国家，资助教堂或清真寺，孤儿院，并确保维护上帝的殿堂。
我把这笔钱捐给你是因为我没有自己的孩子，也没有任何关系给我留下了很好的评价，所以如果你有兴趣帮助我完成这项任务，请立即回复我，并在下面提供我的电子邮件地址以获取更多信息
信息，愿上帝保佑您和您的家人。

我的电子邮件地址是：pauline.dechaud@yahoo.com

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