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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: "FROM GILLIAN AND ADRIAN BAYFORD" <bayfordfamily109@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bayfordfamily242@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:28:35 +0200
Subject: GIFT FROM US.

Dear Beneficiary,

My wife and I won £148.6 Million Pounds on the 10/08/2012 Euro Millions
Lottery Jackpot and we have done lot of charity donation in Asia and
Europe and we have relocated to our new house in South Africa to continue
our charity work, so we have decided to give out £1,500,000.00 each to 10
lucky people this year, to mark our yearly windfall, lucky for you, your
email address was given to us by random internet search as one of our
lucky recipients.

For verification process see below Please read the article -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187999/

Kindly send to us your Full Name, Country, Age, Occupation and Phone
Number for details and we will get back to you with more information.
Congratulations & Happy Celebrations in Advance.
Gillian and Adrian Bayford.

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