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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: "ITSI ADMIN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.marycampbel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:28:59 +0800
Subject: ALWAYS A WINNER ..

Attention: Email Owner
 
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Million,five hundred
thousand United states dollars [$5,500,000,00] for the 2018 International E-mail
Draw Awards, organized by International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc(ITSI).
 
 
This letter is from the International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc(ITSI) in association with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), We have been authorized by your state government to announce this news informing you further that ITSI  collects all the email addresses of people who are active on the Internet , between the millions of people that subscribed to Yahoo,Hotmail, AOL, Walla, Gmail, mail.Cz, American Mail, Mail Russian,Indian Mail, Arabic Mail, Italian mails, and only few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected each year to take advantage of this offer and you are one of the selected winners.the World Bank in conjunction with IMF to release some funds to you base on the United Nations on going reward scheme. Kindly confirm the activeness of this your e-mail address for further information's. because we have tried to contact you through our official email address but the mail bounced back.
 
Please direct your contact to our official's direct mail contact
 
Agent Name: Mr Alfred Zayd
 
E-Mail: alfredzayd@gmail.com
 
 
We hope you find this improvement useful .
Yours in Service,
Mary Campbel.
For: The Management.
(ITSI) & (FCA)
 

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