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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: "Ms.Heidi Mendoza." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agent.chrisrollins@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:06:12 -0300
Subject: Attention: Your Payment Is Ready!


I am contacting you as one of the delegated members of the United Nations and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to pay you the sum of $5,500,000.00 United State Dollars as compensation lottery prize which was awarded to you in the just concluded UN and IMF annual lottery draw promotion programme which 100 email addresses was randomly selected from the internet and your email address emerged a winner and your winning number is (UN/IMF400/856/AS87), ballot number is (BN:6220/00657/UN/IMF).

Please contact Mr.Chris Rollins for claim to his direct email address (agent.chrisrollins@gmail.com) for your prize winning with the below information's as soon possible.

*Full Names:
*Home Address:
*Phone Number
*City/Country:
*Sex:

Note: You have only 3 working days to make your claim failure to this instruction will result to cancel your winning prize and please keep your winning information's confidential in your own interest.

Thanks,
Ms.Heidi Mendoza

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