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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: Paul Morgan <joj039068969@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 18:46:14 +0000
Subject: Kinds Respond


Dear Sir/Madam.

My Name is Dr. Paul Morgan. A bank auditor general I decided to contact you through this medium based on a Financial Deal proposal, which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I discovered your email through comprehensive web email search on directory so I decided to contact you. I know this might sound like scam to you because of a lot of activities going on in the internet today. But I assure you that this is 100 % real.

I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $5.8 million U.S dollars [Five Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States dollars] into your account. The money has been dormant for years in our Bank here without anybody coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) died along with his supposed next of kin few years ago. I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.

So, this is the reason why I contacted you, so that we will release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and get back to me for more details or delete it from your mail box, if you are not interested.

We will share the money 50/50% each as soon as the transaction is over. 50%/50% means equal Sharing

Please get back to me urgently, on this Email: mrpamog@hotmail.com

Regards,

Dr Paul Morgan


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