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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: drpaul@donation.eu
Reply-To: engnbruce@y7mail.com
Date: 24 Nov 2020 01:46:31 +0300
Subject: BENEFACTOR 2020 LOCKDOWN WINNER


You have been gifted $970,000 USD in the Month of July 2019
Lottery Donation Funds.

I hope this information reaches to you well as I know you will be
curious to know why how I selected you to receive a cash sum of
$970,000 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate, I Mr.Paul
Jean Dickson I am a French business magnate, An investor and art
collector. I am the chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH,
The world's largest luxury-goods company. I am mapping out this
donation fund every Year to 20 countries all over the world where
our company is located in the world.

I decided to donate the sum of $970,000 USD to you as part of our
charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all
over the world from our $7.5 Billion USD I Mapped out to help
people. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance
because I saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and
picked you. I have decided to make sure this is put on the
internet for the world to see, I have decided to do one thing I
promised God forever. We have helped some charity organizations
from our Fund.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family
members, Before we decided to donate the remaining of our
Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local
fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals, and some other
organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's
and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout
bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 40% of the
entire sum to ourselves for the remaining days because I am sick
and am writing to you from the hospital computer because I don't
know when I will die. To facilitate the payment process of the
funds ($970,000 USD,) which have been donated solely to you, you
are to send us

Your full names
Your contact address
Your personal telephone number
Your Date of birth
your Occupation

So that I can forward your payment information to you
immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money
wisely and judiciously over there in your country. Please, you
have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in
your region, help as many you can help once you have this money
in your personal account because that is the only objective of
donating this money to you in the first place. I like to re-
assure you of the legitimacy of these services as we will not be
involved in any fraudulent act and will never be.
Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people
this time of the year, We have too much to give away as I only
have a few months left on earth. I will advise you as the
prospective lucky Person to be calm not to lose this great
opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangle but
the chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of people
are out there to discourage them as they don't know how it works,
and have never seen such before.

Thank you for accepting our offer,
Best Regards,

Sir.Paul Dickson

mrpauldickson@yahoo.com</PRE></BODY></HTML>

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