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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 Donald trump <denshim@tac-com.biz>
Reply-To: trump2024.gov21@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:33:06 -0800
Subject: DONALD TRUMP FOUNDATION



--
Hello., this email is from Donald J. Trump Foundation, American
politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. , The Trump Foundation
is a charitable organization formed in 1988.

As we happily celebrate Mr Donald J. Trump as 47th President of the
United States.

It gives me great joy to announce to you that after the winning of
election, Donald J. Trump has called for the reopening of the Trump
foundation which was closed years ago.

The Trump foundation is giving out $15,000,000.00 each to 50 lucky
people around the world to unknown randomly selected individual
Emails online,the foundation simply attempt to be fearful when others
are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful Price is what
you pay, Value is what you get, Someone's sitting in the shade today
because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

You have been selected to receive this $15,000,000.00, as a lucky one
confirm back to me that this selected unknown email is valid,Visit
the web page to know more about the Donald J. Trump Foundation,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation
Contact. This email below (trump2024.gov21@gmail.com)

Best Regards
Donald J. Trump Foundation

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