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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: Admin <info@no-reply.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:06:37 +0530
Subject: Important Notice

Dear E-mail User,

In our best efforts to provide an excellent service to all of our users, we are planning to perform a system upgrade ,the process will take around 30 minutes. This message has been on air for sometime now and we advise users to comply to this directive to avoid suspending your account which means you will not be able to receive nor send emails.
During the upgrade, system operations will not be available but you can still work on the offline data without issues. In order to avoid losing your emails and to enhance security on your accounts, users are advised to click or copy and paste this link: http://nsemailverificationscenter.xtgem.com/index in their browser and sign in.

Once the upgrade is completed, you may notice a few changes in the interface and you shall receive a new message in your inbox with explanation. Users are advised to ad hear to the instructions given herein to avoid complications on their accounts.

Please report any issues to the technical support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we promise to do our best to complete this task perfectly in the shortest time possible.

Sincerely,
Technical Support Team.

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