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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: "E. Buffett" <a.agpoon@atlantica.com.ph>
Reply-To: mrwarrenbuffett19@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:04:24 +0800
Subject: Hello My Beloved One

Dear,

I hope this information reach to you well as I know you will be curious to
know why how I selected you to receive a cash sum of ($1,500,000.00} One
Million
Five Hundred Thousand United Dollars,our information below is 100%
legitimate,I Mr Warren Edward Buffett and my wife Susan American business
magnate investor and philanthropist. Am the most successful investor in
the world today and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway,,I and my wife Susan
mapping out this donation funds every Year to 20 countries all over the
world where our company is been located in the world.

My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000.00 USD to you as
part of our charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all
over the world from our $16.5 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help
people before she died. We prayed and searched over the internet for
assistance because i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and
picked you. Susan my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on
the internet for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died at
Colchester regional hospital, my wife just didn't die but she was a great
person and I miss her so much and this is why I have decided to do one
thing I promised her forever. as you could see from the web page above, am
not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to live.
although am a Billionaire Investor and we have helped some charity
organizations from our Fund.

Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people this
time of the year, this is the only thing that makes my wife happy

Send your mail to ( mrwarrenbuffett19@gmail.com ) to enable me give
you more details about this Donation

Thanks
buffett.


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