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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: Volodymyr Demchyshyn <davebohuslav6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: official.volodemchyshyn@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 03:49:59 +0800
Subject: I will be waiting for your response

Greetings to you ,
I know you don't know me and I know you will be surprised to receive this
email. Please I will appreciate if you read carefully and respond, it's not
like the random email flying everywhere on the internet, only if you
believe, you will never regret working with me.My name is Volodymyr
Demchyshyn, I am a Ukrainian citizen, I was the minister of Energy and Coal
Industry, it's been over a month since the invasion of Russia to my country
Ukraine, and since then, things has never been the same for us, as most of
our institutions and hospitals are been destroyed by Russian missiles. I
and a few other senior civil servants both serving and retired decided to
stay back and work with the government to see how to remedy the situation.

The reason why I am contacting you is for us to work together on a very top
financial secret, When I was serving as an energy minister, I still have my
personal business as a gas and coal supplier abroad, I have about sixty two
million United States dollars {$62,000.000.00 USD} in an international
private escrow account, I want you to be in charge of the funds, I want it
to be invested wisely so that the proceeds of the funds will help to take
care of the displaced citizens of Ukraine.

Furthermore, the financial home may plan to take advantage of the situation
in Ukraine and confiscate the account, based on that, I will want the
account to be transferred to you so that you can be the sole beneficiary of
this fund.

Note that once this fund is under your care, you will have 15% of the total
funds, 15% will go to the displaced Ukraine citizens while the rest will be
on investment or in a fixed deposit until whenever I will have the time to
come meet you in person for any further investment plan.
Please keep this confidential as it will be very dangerous to be leaked
outside to a third party based on security reasons and my political status.
I will be waiting for your response.

Yours sincerely,
Volodymyr Demchyshyn

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