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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: "MARK JONES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jonesmark8280@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 04:36:23 -0700
Subject: ARE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE

The Supreme Court USA
FROM:MARK JONE

Attention:Beneficiary,

In the course of our General Investigation and funds transfer Supervision
few days ago,we discovered that the Bank Accounts and funds belonging to
some Benefactors have been changed on the basis that the owners have died
some time or have given out an authorization note of change of data.

After the investigations however, it was revealed that there are Foreigners,
Bank officials and government officials who are collaborating with Retired
Staffs to make these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide
BenefIciarys and one traced to your Transaction/ change is this MRS.ANNE
WILLIAMS
who said you are dead, hence they have commenced the divertion of your funds
worth US$10,000,000.00 as we intercepted the funds here in the USA as they
intended to transfer the funds to below account in CANADA.

ACCOUNT NAME:MRS.ANNE WILLIAMS
BANK.-HSBC CANADA
QUEZON AVE. DELTA BRANCH
QUEZON CITY , CANADA
ACCOUNT NO. 2984-0008-66
SWIFT CODE. BOPIPHMM

We wish to inform you that we have investigated the origin of the
US$10,000,000.00 in question and wish to confirm it to you that
funds originated from a pending/witheld transaction in your name,
such as Compensation, Lottery Winnings ,inheritance or
contract payment.

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and hence decided to
write to your email address which after 2 days from now and there is
no response, we will then know that you are dead indeed and we will
authorize MRS.ANNE WILLIAMS to claim the funds from Federal
Reserve Bank USA
where we deposited the funds.but if you are still alive, you are to
contact us back immediately as we would not be held responsible
of wrong payment.also get back to us with your home address ,full name
and your direct phone number for proper documentation and verification.

These details from you will help to assist us reach a conclusion that
you are not dead.Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge
this woman to court and prosecute her while your fund will be paid to
you immediately without any further delay as the fund is in Federal Reserve
Bank USA .

Yours Faithfully.
The Supreme Court USA
FROM:MARK JONE

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