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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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Fraud email example:

From: Alan Jose <alan44jose@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:43:47 +0000
Subject: I AWAITS YOUR REPLY

Hello,

I am Alan Jose, I am from Mexico, I live in Dubai, i am staff of National
Bank Dubai, do you know Omar Nicolas. in your country? he was an oil and
gas merchant, he has an account in my bank
and he died in a deadly earthquake in China in 2008, there is a large
amount of money ($ 18,400,000.00) that belongs to him, his account has
no beneficiary.

When I reviewed your profile and I decided to tell you about the proposal,
i want your cooperation so that the bank sends you the fund as the
beneficiary and relative closest to the fund so that we can both share it,
you can contact me if you are interested and that you will not betray me,
then i will you send more details about fund.

Waiting for your reply.. Thanks

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