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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.Richard Benson. <laboratorio@colfarma.org.ar>
Reply-To: richardamb6@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:19:37 -0800
Subject: FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

From:Mr. Richard Benson.
Date: Monday,February 19, 2024.
Sub: Unclaimed funds.

Dear Beneficiary,

Your unclaimed funds have been recovered from one of the bogus banks through our inter-switch dollar transactions database. My name is Richard Benson, I am a consultant with the National Unrecovered Financial Services (UK). Department of Payments Services. If you have had any contract/business transactions around the globe that were unclaimed, we have recovered your funds from one of the bogus banks.

Kindly contact me via my email: richardamb6@gmail.com, for more details, due process and release of the aforementioned funds.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Yours truly,

Mr Richard Benson.

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