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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: Head office USA <uu907869@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usoffice50@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:07:37 -0700
Subject: Head Office USA

Hello My name is Mr.CHURCH RYAN the Assistant sectary of Home Land
security. During my routine checks on our warehouse yesterday, we
discovered a cargo box. While scanning the box our cash track machine
detected that the content of the Box the D iplomat is delivering to
you is cash worth 8.5 Million USA, and we decided to break the box,
and we found out that, The Diplomat who arrived with the box made
several attempts to reach you all efforts Proved abortive so he
decided to leave the box and travel back to his country, so if you are
serious to receive your box, get back to me
Confirm the below information as soon as possible:

1,FULL NAME--------
2,ADDRESS------------
3,NEAREST AIRPORT-------
4,PHONE NUMBER____
5,ID CARD ---------
6,OCCUPATION---------

Contact Here or you email my office directly
E-mail: usoffice50@gmail.com
E-mail: ryantimothy932@gmail.com
Phone: 850 463 0613
THANKS.

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