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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: Unilimited SMTP <postmaster1@coldwellbankergtd.com>
Reply-To: toolssupply24hours@hotmail.com
Date: 19 Mar 2023 02:42:02 -0700
Subject: Buy Your Spamming Tools & Learn How To Get It...

Dear postmaster1,


Host:  cPanel, RDP, WebShell, SSH
SMTP 
PHP Mailer

Webmail:  Office365, Zimbra, Goddady, Owa, Aruba, OVH, IONOS
Leads:  Fresh Emails lists, Combos, Phone Numbers
Script / Programs: Scampages, Scanners, Filters .etc
RDP: AWS, Comcast, Earthlink, etc
Email: toolssupply24hours@hotmail.com
Skype: toolssupply24hours@hotmail.com or  live:.cid.6ee4d068034d2a93
ICQ: geetools
If you dont have any means of this chat, please you can reply us with your whatsapp and we add you up from here.

we try to protect our whatsapp from reporting spam on it.

Thank you.

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