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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: "Mr. Wolfgang Geihsler" <claire@goaster.com>
Reply-To: wolfganggeihsler@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:12:32 +0300
Subject: Attention: My Dear Customer.

Attention: My Dear Customer.

I am Mr.Wolfgang Geihsler due to our Manager was posted away last week I was
appointed as new Manager in this western union office and I went
through our office payment files and find out that you have sum
of $2,500,000.00 here in our custody since last two years ago ,I later
observed that you need to comply with sum of $1,200 in order to start
receive your payment.

I am writing to inform you that I have $700 at hand to
assist you to complete your transaction here in our custody, but it's
not yet complete and secondly you have to assure me that after I
assisted you on this transfer,as soon as you receive your first
installation payment that you will refund my $700 back to me. The
reason why I want to assist you out of this payment,because if this
fund last for more than three months in our custody, it will transfer
to Government account.I need your urgent payment of the remaining $500 today, so that we
shall start processing your transfer of your first $5000.00.each mtcn
and you will be allow to received three payments per day which is
$15,000,00.

reconfirm Your Receiver Details such as Your
:name
:Address_
:Country_
:City_
:Tell.

Send all these needed information in this
:Email ( wolfganggeihsler@gmail.com )

Am looking forward to hear from you as the funds beneficiary.
Thanks and God bless,
Mr.Wolfgang Geihsler
Foreign Operation Manager.

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