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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: Julie Leach
Reply-To: <j.leach@stbarnabas.necoxmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 05:45:17 +0100
Subject: RE: DONATION

Hi,

You have a cash grant donation of $2,000.000.00 USD, I am Julie Leach;Won $310.5 million Powerball jackpot from the Michigan Lottery. My jackpot was a gift from God to me and my entire family has agreed to do the will of God. I may not know you, but I believe if you were chosen by God to receive my cash grant donation of 2,000,000 USD. You must be a God fearing individual, I am a believer and i believe that Good things happens to those people who wait and also believe and I want you to know that this decision of given donation was taken by me and my boyfriend and my kids. To verify the genuineness of this email and my winnings, please you can read more about me by viewing the below links:

http://www.powerball.com/powerball/winners/2015/MI_Leach_093015.shtml

For video click on the following link.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/winner-3105-million-powerball-jackpot-disbelief-34284234

For more details, please kindly email me at j.leach@jmblaw.necoxmail.com

Happy Celebrations in Advance.

Julie Leach.

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