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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: United Nations Spokesman <"info."@souyanet.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: paul.hy1@box.ua
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:24:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention Beneficiary;

It's my pleasure to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters artists in the world with the help of the African Union (AU) United Nations (UN) European Union (EU) and we have been able to track down some artists in various parts of the world and they are all in government custody now.

During the investigation, they were able to recover some funds from these artists and all the organizations have agreed and ordered Mr.Heymans, the funds recovered to be shared among the 15 Lucky people listed as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you because your e-mail address was found in one of the artist file and computer hard-disk while investigating, you are therefore being compensated with sum of US$7 Million dollars in ATM card.

The ATM card with its security Pin Number shall be released to you by Mr. Heymans so contact him on his e-mail (p6heymann@gmail.com) with your personal data in order to proceed with this transaction.

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Delivery Address
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Occupation
Age
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Thanks
Best Regards
Signed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,

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