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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Bernard Arnault" <admin@mozadom.cf>
Reply-To: arnault_bernard@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:42:24 -0000
Subject: (Mr.Bernard Arnault Billionaire investor URGENT REPLY )




Note: if you found this email in your junk/spam, its because of your
internet isp server.

I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to
know why/how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $2 MILLION USD , our
information below is 100% legitimate, My wife and I decided to donate the
sum of $2,000,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve
the lot of 10 lucky individuals all over the world from our $13.5 Billion
Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help people before she died. We prayed and
searched over the internet for assistance because i saw your profile on
Microsoft email owners list and picked you.H?l?ne my wife and i have
decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. my
wife has cancer and she died at Colchester regional hospital, my wife just
didn't die but she was a great person and I miss her so much and this is
why I have decided to do one thing I promised her forever. as you could
see from the web page above, am not getting any younger and you can
imagine having no much time to live. although am a Billionaire Investor
and we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members,
Before she died we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to
other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the
red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Truro where H?l?ne underwent her cancer
treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight
cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with
our payout bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 40% of the
entire sum to our self for the remaining days because I am sick and am
writing you from hospital computer because I don't know when I will die.
To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($2,000,000,00 USD) which
have been donated solely to you,

you are to send us.
your full names.................
your contact address.....................
your personal telephone number...............
your Date of birth............................
your Marital Status............................
your Occupation................................

One Passport photographs or any of your valid Identity so that I can
forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you
will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your
country. Please, you have to do you part to also alleviate the level of
poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money
in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating
this money to you in the first place. I like to re-assure you of the
legitimacy of this services as we will not be involved in any fraudulent
act and will never be.

Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people this
time of the year, this is the only thing that makes my wife happy too even
now that she is not here with me anymore, we have too much to give away as
I only have a few months left on earth. I will advise you as the
prospective lucky Person to be calm not t Mr Bernard Arnault.o loose this
great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangle but the
chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of people are out there
to discourage them as they don't know how it works, and have never seen
such before.

Thank you for accepting our offer,we are indeed grateful You Can Google my
name for more information:
God bless you
Mr.Bernard Arnault Billionaire investor contact me on this
(arnault_bernard@aol.com)



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