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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: "Gates Foundation" <susan@salesapps.ru>
Reply-To: donationclaim@1email.eu
Date: 18 Mar 2017 05:25:11 +0100
Subject: Jackpot

Greetings to You,
You have been awarded $2 MILLION USD from Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.I hope this information meet you well as I know you
will be curious to know why/how you selected to receive a sum of
$2,000,000,00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate,
please see the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
I BILL GATES and my wife decided to donate the sum of
$2,000,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to
improve the 100 lucky individuals all over the world from our $65
Billion USD I and My Wife Mapped out to help people.
Your email account was selected randomly through Microsoft
database as a Microsoft user and email account holder. Melinda my
wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet
for the world to see. As you could see from the webpage above,am
not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time
to live. although am a Billionaire investor and we have helped
some charity organizations from our Funds worldwide.
You see after taking care of the needs of our immediate family
members, Before we die, we decided to donate the remaining of our
Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local
fire department, the red cross society, Haiti, hospitals in truro
where Melinda underwent her cancer treatment, and some other
organizations in Asia and Europe. Africa that fight cancer,
alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with
our payout bank of this charity donation.
To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($2,000,000.00
USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send us
Your full names.................
Your contact address................
Your personal telephone number...............
I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and
judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your
part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help
as many as you can help once you have this money in your account
because that is the only objective of donating this money to you
in the first place. Thank you for accepting our offer, we are
indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.
Remain Blessed
Regards,
Susan Desmond-Hellman
Donation Co-Ordinator

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