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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: COVID -19 Compensation Scheme <infoo.infofo15@gmail.com>
Reply-To: unitcompasunit@live.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:28:07 -0700
Subject: Re. COVID -19 Compensation Scheme

Following the outbreak and subsequent spread of the corona virus
pandemic globally, our consortium of the World Health Organization, a
specialized agency of United Nations, has come together to compensate
the poor, needy, widows, orphans, and the downtrodden in India. As one
of the Directors based in the UK, I am fronting on behalf of the World
Health Organization to contact you as you have been selected to
benefit from this compensation scheme.

In the light of the above, the sum of (US$6,5M) has been approved
as compensation for procurement of food, drugs, and other relief
materials to assist the affected victim's brothers, sisters, wives'
husbands, children, fathers, and mothers who may have been affected by
corona virus infection.
We have similar, compensations two weeks ago to Individuals in the
USA, ASIA,EUROP,AUTRALIA,and Nations in AFRICA.

Revert back with your full name, Contact address, and Phone number
including your ID for further details .

Warmest Regards,
Dr.Hans Henri P.Kluge,
Regional Director for Europe
COVID -19 Compensation Scheme
Website: http://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/regional-director/dr-hans-kluge-biography

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