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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.Suvo Sarkar gassnergrafik@lex-com.net
Reply-To: frankdolson987@gmail.com
Date: 28 Oct 2020 17:53:53 -0400
Subject: HELLO

Dearest Friend,

How are you today? you may not remember me again, but I contacted
you
previously about a business transaction, don't know if you will
remember. Actually you agreed to help me then but later opted
out. Well
I was able to successfully transfer the funds to another business
partner that helped me. At the same time I want to use this
opportunity
to say that I did not forget your past effort and attempts to
assist me
then, now I'm happy to inform you that i have succeeded in
getting the
fund transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Hong
Kong,
meanwhie I decided to compensate you with the sum of
$3,000,000.00 as my
little appreciation for your effort and all the stress that you
went
through during that period.

Kindly make contact to my personal secretary Mr. Frank Dolson,
through
this e-mail address (frankdolson987@gmail.com) and tell him to
send you
the preloaded Visa ATM card of $3,000,000.00 (Which can be used
at any
ATM machine with Visa Card logo worldwide) which I reserved for
your
compensation for all the effort you made to assist me during that
difficult time because without you it wouldn't havee been
possible for
me and the new partner to successfully get the money, so feel
free to
contact my secretary immediately and send him your details maily
(Your
Full Names, Address and Cellphone No.#) so that he can send you
the card
soonest.

Do not forget to let me know immediately you receive the CARD, so
that
we can share this great news together, I am very busy with my
partner at
the moment because of the current investment projects that we are
working together in his country so i may not be available on
email but
will communicate at the earliest i can.

Thank you once again for your support then and do accept my
sincere
gratitude.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Suvo Sarkar

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