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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: Andy Walter <andywalter202@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 00:52:12 +0100
Subject: WHAT HAS GONE WRONG

Please we hope this message get to you in a good state of mind, please we
want to know what is really going and why you have choose not to respond
back to our email, we just trying our best to serve you better, if there is
anything you don't understand and you think its not right do let us know,
we also use this little opportunity to apologies for any inconveniences
this might have cost you, we promise to set things straight this time
around.We letting you down is the last thing we would ever want to do. We
can appreciate how frustrating, disappointing, upsetting, inconvenient this
whole situation has been for you and understand that we are now dealing
with the repercussions for that, Please we wait for your urgent respond
thanks for understanding...

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