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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. Patricia Noah." <gulfbank219@gmail.com>
Reply-To: directoroffice1@aol.com
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:58:53 -0700
Subject: Dear Beneficiary.

--
The reason you have not received your funds after so many attempts is
simply because your name has been on the FinCEN blacklist, you were
blacklisted from receiving your compensation funds, Inheritance funds,
Lottery funds e.t.c within the Country and from overseas.

why we decided to communicate with you today is because we have discovered
that you are pursuing too many transactions in internet in which all
are failing you after wasting too much money in pursuing them , some
of these transactions are FAKE and Some are REAL but the reason you
have not received any fund is because your name is in (BLACKLIST)
which makes it impossible for you to receive your funds from outside
or within the country. so it is better you stop wasting your money in
the name of receiving your funds until your name is removed from the
BLACKLIST.

The blacklist is a list of people who have sent thousands to
International fraud elements and criminals involved in all manner of
illegal business ranging from terrorism, money laundering, arms
smuggling and human trafficking are marked and excluded or blocked
from receiving huge amounts of funds from or outside the country or
within the country.


Contact Mr. Timothy Paul at United Bank, office email
(directoroffice1@aol.com) as soon as possible for
removing your name from the blacklist and the immediate release of
your fund of $4.3million to you.


God Bless you more.

Yours in Service,

Mrs. Patricia Noah.

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