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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: OFFICE INFO <oinfo417333@gmail.com>
Reply-To: om445694@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:35:00 +0100
Subject: about your approved grant

Attention:Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your
contract/inheritance file and found out that why you have not received
your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given
to you in respect of your contract/inheritance payment.Right now we
have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center.

This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to
withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but
the maximum is fifteen thousand united states dollars per day. so if
you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by
sending the following information as listed below.
Kindly re-confirm to me the followings on this email om445694@gmail.com

1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification

the ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue out
$8,300,000.00 as part payment for this fiscal year 2022. Also for your
information, you have to stop any further communication with any other
person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your
payment.Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code
of conduct, which is (ATM-811) so you have to indicate this code when
replying by using it as your subject.

YOURS SINCERELY,
Mr Stanley ezema
CALL ME +2348037050908

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