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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: Inspector Ahmed Luiz <tinner95b@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hsprtafricdtsrs@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 07:15:16 -0700
Subject: Dear beneficiary:

Dear beneficiary:

This is to inform you that we have discovered your inheritance funds
total amount of $2.8 Million USD herein Benin republic, we discovered
your funds during our official investigations with ECO-BANK Benin
yesterday, the ecobank Benin has credited your funds $2.8 Million USD
into an ATM VISA card and your ATM card is now under our custody and
will be delivered to your home address as soon as we could hear from
you.

Therefore, you expected to get back to us with your home address, so
that we can be able to register your ATM card for the immediate
delivery to your home address under 24 hours (Email:
hsprtafricdtsrs@outlook.com)

Yours on duty
Inspector Ahmed Luiz
+229 9867 8298

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