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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: "Mr. Gouli Frank" <goulif18@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aliabdul57800@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:14:18 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION

ATTENTION:

We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam
Artists with the help of the Organization of African Unity
(OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.
We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of
countries, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon
for Justice.

During the course of investigation, we were able to recover some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organizations have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 12 Lucky people listed around
the World as compensation.

This notice has been directed to you because your email address was
found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the
investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being
compensated with a sum of ($950,000.00) Nine hundred and fifty
thousand US Dollars valid into an (ATM Card Number 4061730945219566).

CONTACT BELOW EMAIL FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR ATM CARD.

Contact name:Mr Ali Abdul
Email Address: (aliabdul57800@gmail.com)
Position: Director.


Yours in Services
Mr. Gouli Frank

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