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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.Elton Awelebia" <mary@marypixel.com>
Reply-To: elton.awelebia7@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 08:07:57 -0700
Subject: RE: Confirm Receipt. 190.102.138.125

Attn;

Kindly be informed that we received a telex message from our branch office stating that, you have instructed one Mr. Bradly George an English based in Indonesia to transfer your compensation fund, to a joint account you hold with him, he also informed our branch office that he is ready to take care of the final remittance authorization fee.

In view of this, we wish to call on your attention as Mr. Bradly George is responding to our foreign remittance department regarding a quick clearance so that your compensation fund of US$2.7M will be transferred to the joint account therefore, you have to confirm to us immediately if this instruction was legally authorized by you in other to enable us effect with the approval of your compensation fund remittance to your partner Mr. Bradly George

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