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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: "Richard Water" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richwater0071@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:34:51 -0700
Subject: GOOD DAY

Please Whoever this email meets i need your co-operation

and to introduce myself i am Mr Richard Water and i work with

an intermediary bank by name Exodus bank Group , i discovered

from my bank data assessment as the bank auditor general

that a deceased customer left in one of his accounts 580

million United States Dollars and no one is aware of this for

the past one year and 2 months . I am in search of

anyone who can allow me file in His/Her name as the

benefactor with 0.00 percent risk free after which we can

split the money 50/40 and then 10% goes to the lawyer in

charge . I await your response if interested .

Kind Regards
Richard Water
Auditor

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