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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. RICHARD" <richardnewman745@gmail.com>
Reply-To: richllarmmo@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 07:39:03 +0100
Subject: Greetings to you,

Greetings to you,

I hope you and your lovely family are in good health,I deem it fit to
make this contact with you based on your status,which clearly reflects
your good reputation and strong standing in terms of business
integrity.My name is Richard Newman I represent the interest of a top
government official who is in charge of contract Award, screening,
categorization and privatization of projects embarked upon by
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) who deliberately over-invoiced
contract value of the various contracts Awarded in their department
who instructed me to seek for a reliable/trust person/company such as
yourself that will be fronted as a foreign contractor who executed
the contracts and process the transfer of this funds officially as
contract payment to you strictly for our mutual benefit and possible
investment partnership with the funds,

I urgently wait for your response if indeed you are interested to work
with us, kindly respond with your direct and private contact
informations such as your phone number and your whatsapp number for
our faster communication, full details of the procedures and amount
involved will be explained upon your response
Respectfully yours
Mr Richard N.

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