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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: Cecilia Ferko <ec_ailicec@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: roberto.lucas@citromail.hu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:59:26 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear winner

Dear winner

This is to inform you that you have been declared the winner of the Spanish National Lottery elGordo. Your e-mail address attached to the Winning Number: 22-25-27-32-44-6 which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

Consequently, you have been approved for a payment of € 2,000,000 (Two million Euros) in cash credited to file ref number: 008205. This is from a total cash prize of € 12,700,000 (Twelve million seven hundred thousand Euros) shared among seven (7) international winners in this category.

Congratulations!!!

Your fund is now deposited with a Financial institution and is insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this program by participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 e-mail addresses from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, South America and North America as part of our international promotions program which we conduct every year. We hope your lucky e-mail address will draw a bigger cash prize in our next high-stakes of 24 million euro Inter.Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact our accredited claim agent, Mr. Roberto Lucas via email: roberto.lucas@citromail.hu
You are also advised to provide the below stated requirements to our agent for the processing and remittance of your payment to a designation bank account of your choice.

(1) Your full name:
(2) Your address:
(3) Your nationality:
(4) Your occupation:
(5) Your date of birth:
(6) Gender:
(7) Mobile phone:
(8) Home phone:
(9) Office phone:
(10) Your valid id:

To avoid unnecessary delays, please provide the above requirements in your correspondence with our claim agent, Mr. Roberto Lucas. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address do inform him as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from our staff, and thanks for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,

Valeria Manuel.

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