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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. Charles Westmoreland" <rm5249671@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.grantclaim.department01@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:03:52 +0100
Subject: From Mr. Charles Westmoreland

Attention Sir/Ma`am,


Good day to you dear lucky winner, I was instructed to send you an
email to confirm from you to know if you have received any
notification update regarding Annual Grant Lottery Power-ball from any
of

our staff agents before?We are pleased to inform you of the result
that just concluded annual final draws held on the (27th of March
2023) by the Grant Board Official group in cash Promotion to

encourage the citizens of these countries.

Your name was among the 20 Lucky winners who won $900.000.00 USD (Nine
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each on the Grant Lucky
Power-ball promotion Award.
The online draw was Conducted by a random selection of name and phone
carrier and your name was picked By an Advanced automated random
computer search from Grant.
This Program is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the aspect that impacts people's lifestyle worldwide.

Am appointed here by the Grant board as your claim agent and I am here
to instruct you on how you are going to claim your winnings, that is
if you are interested as you have the option to decline.
We remember your name on our Winner's List and congratulation you are
one of the Lucky winner of Grant Power-ball Lottery Promotion., and we
Embarked on a worldwide promotion for Disabled,

Unemployed, Worker's, Retired, Young's & Old's people's all over the
Globe, A Sophisticated Automated Database to Randomly select
Phone/E-mail Accounts that frequently surf the Internet.Consequent

upon this, Grant Official Government Board picked your email for
Category B Winners, you have been selected as a winner. We Are United
Power To Success and Focus For Deaf People, Hearing, Poor

and Retire Workers in the Community, Supported By The United State Of
America Government. So your name was chosen on Grant by the board
official so let us know if you are ready to claim the

money now?.

Kindly confirm that you provide your information for the claiming of
your Grant payment.

Full Names:
Country of Residence:
Address:
Occupation:
Date of Birth:
A copy of ID Card/Driver`s Licence:
Telephone:
Gender:

Below are your Winnings details which were selected for category B in
this Year's Grant Annual Electronics Promotions programmed for
citizens only.

Ref Number: EUM DN 0508-9T6
Batch Number: EUM QY-3LJ4
Ticket Number: 3510-EM 47
Prized NUMBER: 7780129/N

You are advised to keep the above winnings information details private
to yourself and never to intend to disclose it to anyone for security
reasons.

Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as you read this message.

Reply to: info.grantclaim.department01@gmail.com


Thank you.

Warmly wishes,
Mr. Charles Westmoreland
Assign Grant Official Claim Agent Office.

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