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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: "Mark Lomas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <marklomas02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:54:46 -0000
Subject: Re: Good News!

Good News!
 
I' m happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred to a foreign account under the cooperation of a new partner from London,United Kingdom . Presently I'm in Dublin, Ireland, for an investment projects with my own share of the total funds .Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist/help me in transferring those funds abroad despite that it failed us due to some challenges .Now you will need to contact a friend of mine in The United States Dr. John Hollbrook whom used to be a Good brother to me when i visited USA last summer, his name is DR. John Hollbrook and his email address is as follows : ( jhollbrookk@yahoo.com)
 
Contact: John Hollbrook
jhollbrookk@yahoo.com
 
  Make Sure you provide him with the
following information below:
 
1) Your Full Name:
2) Your Phone number:
3) Home Address
4) Profession/Occupation:
5) Preferred Payment Method (Check /ATM
or Bank
transfer):
6) Copy of your Passport or Driving
license
 
Ask him to send you a certified bank draft of US $2,000,000.00 ony which I prepared and kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me recover the inheritance funds. I appreciate your efforts at that time and do feel free and get in touched with Mr. John Hollbrook and instruct him where/how to receive the above mentioned amount.Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share our joy after all the sufferings at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and my newly found partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded payment instruction to John Hollbrook in the United States to release that money once you get in contact with him by e-mail.Therefore feel free to get in touch with him and he will send the amount to you without delay. Take care and bye
for now.
 
Yours truly
Mark Lomas

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