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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: "Sandra Madden" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <promotioninternationalslotter@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:15:57 +0200
Subject: Serial Number QK0116388292

WINNING NOTIFICATION!
 
From: Gerry Foster
 
 
20 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
M5G 2C2
 
 
 
Attention: Email Owner
 
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the results of the Qatar FIFA World Cup Promotional Draw Special Global Lottery Promotion International (SGPL-INT) of Ontario 49 Canada Lottery sponsored jointly by the Canadian and Qatar Governments Tourism Departments.
 
We happily announce that the online email electronic random draws held on Wednesday, June 29th 2020 in Ontario, Canada with the electronic Ticket allocation number SGPL-INT 2897283 with Serial Number QK0116388292 drew the winning numbers 07 14 35 37 42 44 with a bonus of 36 for Ontario 49 Lotto under the lotto B-weekly Six.
 
Your email by this draw has therefore won a total sum of US$980.000.00 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand United States Dollars) in cash allocated to Ref: SGPL-INT 0080/INT and other all expense travels awards o Qatar. This amount is from a total cash prize of US$12 Million shared amongst eight hundred winners under the Special Promotion Lottery worldwide and you are one of our lucky winners!
 
In view of this, your US$980.000.00 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand United States Dollars) will be released to you by an accredited commercial bank in United Kingdom or Switzerland as FIFA headquarters cities. You are advised to immediately contact our accredited agent in UK, London who will immediately commence your prize-fund release via bank bank Transfer-payment.
 
All winning participants emails were selected randomly through electronic computer draws from a database of over 100,000 companies and personal emails. As a precautionary measure, we ask all winners to keep their winnings confidential until they receive their prizes, to avoid fraudulent claims and unwarranted abuse of our program.
 
To claim your winnings, please immediately contact our representative agent in UK (Ms. Emily Cromwell Frank) via email:QatarPromotional@swissmail.com or promotioninternationalslotter@gmail.com. You will have to supply your reference and winning numbers to the agency when you contact them to avoid complications in approval of your prize money.
 
 
Once More, congratulations!
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Sandra Madden
 
Special Global Lottery Promotion International (SGPL-INT)
Ontario 49 Canada Lottery

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