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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: "Michael Weirsky Foundation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <contactmichaelweirsky@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:45:44 +0100
Subject: CHARITY PROJECT

Dear Email Owner,

Am Michael J Weirsky i recently won $273 million Mega Millions drawing held on Friday March 1, 2019, I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000.00 to you, being part of my Charitable Organizational Donation Project to financially support eight (10) lucky people around the world. Your email was luckily selected via a Google & social media Sponsored email draws.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below to see my interview and send your response back to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8yRTmrYMY&feature=youtu.be&rel=0
https://www.megamillions.com/Winners-Gallery/2019/Jackpot-winner-almost-loses-ticket!.aspx

i believe that this wonderful opportunity came to me from lord because it happen when am helpless in life and i cannot keep it to myself all alone, again your contact was submitted to me by Google Management Team and you received this email because i have shortlisted you as one of the lucky individual, If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky winner and all you have to do is get back to me with your particulars so that i can send your details to the pay-out bank.

M.J Weirsky

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