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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: Dolores Morgan <corbin.leap@gmail.com>
Reply-To: morgandolores18@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 05:54:01 +0100
Subject: HELLO

I work for the Awareness team am very happy to inform you about the
money that was awarded to you.well we are giving you the money in
order to show Good Citizen appreciation,your name and your email
address was selected in a raffle draw that was made some days ago and
am very happy to inform you that you are one of our lucky winners in
the draw that has won the total sum of $700,000,00

This isn't a fraud or anything of that sort,we want you to be
assured that this is REAL and your money is available for delivery but
we are only waiting for your rapid response to our notifications. and
you will also get your winning certificate online for you to know it
is real

Ticket number: B956475604545 188 with serial number 97560 drew the
winning: 01/03/22/32/38/44/

We are keeping all the information we are getting from you
confidential and we are not letting it out to anybody who is not part
of the Awareness team, we are honest and we hope you are honest with
us too.

We will be waiting for your rapid response so that we can proceed to
deliver your money to your home address as soon as possible.

We will like you to verify your name and address because we don't
want to make any mistake in delivery terms.
Name :
Address :
City :
State :
Zip Code :
Text number :
Age:

Contact the company for the verification via text only(423) 228-0299

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