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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: "Mr. Richard Wahl" <jabuf@resbank.co.za>
Reply-To: hgold8080@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:18:43 +0200 (EET)
Subject: DONATION




I Richard Wahl, claimed the winning ticket for the $758.7 million
Powerball jackpot in August of 2017. Shortly after, I called up my
employer at Mercy Medical Center, where i had worked for 32 years, and
quit. Out of my $533,000,000.00 million Powerball jackpot, i decided to
give away $1,000,000 each to 100 lucky person's of which your email was
randomly picked.  Link/proof
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=tne02ExNDrw
congratulations! once more

Provide your details as follows to enable us forward to our lawyer to
register you before providing you  the payout bank to pay you.

Full Name:
Address:
Date Of Birth:
Sex:
Phone Number:

Thanks
Mr. Richard Wahl
hgold8080@gmail.com

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