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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: "Frank M. Hundsdorff" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pdllk00@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 20:23:07 -0700
Subject: Re: GREETINGS

Hello,
You are surprisingly receiving this message because you don't know me, but I'm left with no choice than opening this communication with you. I'm living my dream life as oceanographer; Oceanography covers a wide range of topics, including marine life and ecosystems, ocean circulation, plate tectonics and the geology of the seafloor, and the chemical and physical properties of the ocean. This message creates medium of our friendliness and constant communication to revealing my enthusiasm. I'm a German, married with 4kids (2boys and 2girls), my wife was a medical doctor and we had wonderful family, is very painful loosing precious gift of a woman.

Please introduce yourself to know each other while revealing further details of this communication. Thanks as you kindly respond at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Frank M. Hundsdorff.
E: pdllk00@gmail.com
jsmth09@yahoo.com

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