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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: Smith George <bashiralhassanabubakar1996@gmail.com>
Date:
Subject:

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HELLO ACCOUNT OWNER

HOW are you doing today this is FBI special agent from FBI headquarter
Washington DC , during our investigation work we find out that you
have a funds that stop on the way and return back to Federal government,
and you have lost a lot to scammers, all I need from you now is to
sincerely tell me what happen and the year it happen, you have the sum
of $5 million here right now, I will conclude everything if I
received a tangible reason from you, thank you, please remember to
reconfirm your information ,we might surprise you
information to send
phone number:redacted@domain.name
NAME: =========
Date of birth
COUNTRY===
state====
ADDRESS: ====
MOBILE number of your text message.:=======
NAME OF YOUR NEAREST AIRPORT:====
i will be waiting for your responds so that all this can be finalized

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