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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: Mrs Kristalina Georgieva <chevroletutomobilecompany@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kristalinageorgieva963@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 12:04:17 -0700
Subject: HELLO

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of
your fund transfer through the Money Gram network, we have credited
your total of $18.9MILLON, valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I
have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To
you, I paid it because the ATM Card worth of $18.9MILLON, which I have
registered it delivery yesterday has less than 21 days to expire in
the custody of the UPS Company and when it expires, the money will go
into Federal Government treasury account. With that we decided to help
you pay off the money so that the ATM Card will not expire, because I
trust that when you receive your ATM Card definitely you must pay me
back my money and even compensate me for helping you. Now I want you
to contact Ups Express [ceo]at:(united33parcelservice@gmail.com) with
your physical address you desire the delivery to be made so that they
can deliver your ATM Card to your designated address without any
delay. Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery
and the company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did
not pay their official keeping fees since they refused, they refused
and the reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact
them and the demur-rage might have increased by then, They told me
that their keeping fees is $35 per day only, and I deposited it, Below
is the Contact Information of the UPS, Express Customer Service [ceo]
mrs.carol B Tome Email Address;(united33parcelservice@gmail.com) Phone
number +1(272-237-1025) Your address needed such as Your Full
Name........... Your home address........ Your personal telephone..
Your copy of I’d......... Your Occupation.......... Your
Age................. Contact them today and also send them the
security official keeping charge to avoid increase of their fees and
let me know once you receive your ATM card, Important Notice, your ATM
CARD package was registered as a gift so that the diplomatic Agent
will not know the content of your package okay. Regards.
MRS.krist.georg

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