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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.Edward Liam" <mrdarshb@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.eliam009@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 01:42:55 -0800
Subject: ---OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION LETTER.--- 09-03-2021

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COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Greetings Winner,

If you are the correct owner of this email address? If yes then be
glad this day as the result of the Coca-Cola lotto online e-mail
address free-ticket winning draws of November, 2020 held in United
States of America has just been released and we are glad to announce
to you that your email address won you the sweepstakes in the first
category and you are entitled to claim the sum of One Million Two
Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars(US$1,250,000.00).
Your email address was entered for the online draw on this ticket No:
546-373-66773 and won on this Lucky No:
(14)-(8)-(5)-(19)-(28)-(12)-(30).

Let me hear from you for more details.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Liam Edward.
COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION.
Online Winning Notification Department.

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