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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 message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "Anderson Kings" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:36:58 +0300
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE
Hi
I offer investment with Bitcoin. All you need is to have a wallet with Blockchain and you can invest into my mining farm. I have a mining software that works specifically with Blockchain wallet.
To start mining, you create an empty blockchain wallet and i get the software connected to your wallet and the mining network. Once it's connected, you have to fund your wallet to get the miner activated on the network.
It works with traffic so the more people I get on the network the faster and easier mining is. You get weekly payouts, the higher the amount of btc you fund the connected wallet with, the higher the quantity of btc you mine daily. So it is all up to you to decide how you will fund your wallet with.
If you are interested however, i will be entitled to 30% of profits made weekly by this software. You are to send my charge weekly. Failure to do so will have me disconnect the software from you.
Thank you for your interest.
Kind regards.
Anderson Kings.
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