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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: "em.co.za" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <eftwire@mail2online.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:57:55 +0200
Subject: £2,000,000. 00./Claim /ref3452017//184

Dear User
After a computer spin-ball, your email address was among the lucky 10  random emails which were submitted to us by the Google Inc as a ,you ve won the largest prize award of
Email web user.: Award Winner 
 
Microsoft  Approval of Financial Support Of Lottery /Inheritance and Grant Releases to Ten (10) Individuals /companies to claim the sum of £2,000,000. 00.
 
I/We would like to inform you that Bank shall be making transfer to your account once we have received your details by replying this mail.
If we are unable to reach you on the contact details you have provided us, We will withdraw your file from Payment Service list of claimed fund in 21 days..
1.Your Full name……………….
2. Your telephone………………….
3. Your country……………………..
4. Copy of your driver”s license…………….
5. Your bank name…………………………………….
6. Your account number……………………………..
7. Bank routing……………………………………………
8. Swift code………………………………………………..
9. Account holder”s name……………………………..
Thank you for using Online Banking System (Wire Transfer) As a Payments . ... Approval Notification and get to our Transfer department/Technical Dept.      Email : epaymentservice@financier.com /or call +27 619871832
Help Desk at Sophia Adam
Yours sincerely,

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