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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: "Dr. Elaine Morgan" <benjamin.degner@web.de>
Reply-To: inyaedward6743@aol.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 09:24:44 -0700
Subject: Your Prize

From: Dr. Elaine Morgan
Address: 803 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, United States.
Website: https://www.lottoland.co.uk


APPROVED EMAIL No: 3
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/21
Batch No. Lotto/ FISA-354-TWDD77

DATE: 20/5/2021

Dear Microsoft Client/Email ID User,

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but
please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your
success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail
ID electronic online Sweepstakes organized by the Google Incorporation,
in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software
products, INTER-GRAM /FACEBOOK /,MSN /,GMAIL /,HOTMAL / YAHOO,AOL,ETC,
(F.P.S.) held here in New York City USA. Wherein your email address
emerged as one of the online Winning emails ID in the 3rd category and
therefore attracted a cash award of US$4,915,850. (Four Million Nine
Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Eight Fifty United State Dollar Only).

Google being the world leading search engine worldwide, and in an effort
to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, an
online beta e-mail ID promotion was carried out recently in New York
City United States, hence you were contacted in view of this. Please
note that your email address was provided to us by the W3C on request
amongst other email addresses currently from Europe, America, Asia,
Africa and Middle East present on the internet, but your email address
emerged as one of the One Hundred (100) emails ID lucky winner.

You have therefore won the entire sum of (US$4,915,850 Million US
Dollar), a certificate of winning prize prove shall be sent/dispatch to
by winners reconfirmation department head by (Mr. Edward Inyang Jr.)
being your winning agent for him to help you to secure Approval
documents in your name that will Authorized you to Claim your winning
prize from us upon the confirmation of your datas. You are advised to
contact the verification processing Agent with your below stipulated
winning numbers together with your details to avoid unnecessary delay of
your winning prize or complications:

KINDLY CONTACT YOUR PROCESSING AGENT MR.EDWARD INYANG JR TO SEND HIM
YOUR FULL CONTACT DATA’S INFORMATION AS WAS INSTRUCTED BELOW:

Mr. Edward Inyang
Tel: +1(917)819-1714
E-mail: info@michaondobil.com


FULL NAME:-----------------------------------------
FULL ADDRESS:-------------------------------------
COUNTRY OR ORIGIN:-------------------------------
MALE/FEMALE: -------------------------------------
AGE: --------------------------------------------
TEL & FAX:--------------------------------------
WON AMOUNT:--------------------------------------

REF NUMBER: EAAL/851OYHI/21
BATCH NUMBER: Lotto/ FISA-354-TWDD77
INSURANCE NUMBER: SA4/NL3/113/SART21
WINNING NUMBER: 11 12 18 21 30 37/21

Google Corporation has discovered a huge number of double claims before
due to winners disclosing their winning information's to on trust worthy
entities /friends/ relatives/ and third parties. Which finally prompted
a double identity of winning prize claim with a particular wining
numbers and that leads to an unforeseen problems that option the winning
file been place on immediate annulled. The Google Online Team has
reached a decision from headquarters this year to avoid replicate of the
previous problem. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to be
conscious of disclosing your winning information.

Note: This is not a Lottery, it is a promotion therefore if we discover
any abuse or false pretense you will be disqualified, banned and
sanction appropriately, and remember that you must pay upfront
processing fee of US$297.00 United States Dollar to your claim agent Mr.
Edward Inyang Jr who will help you to process your winning prize payment
approval in other to transfer your winning amount to your destination
bank account immediately as we don't authorized anyone to deducted any
money from your total prize amount with any reason.

Thanks and Congratulation.

From: Dr (Mrs.) Elaine Morgan
(Google Corporation Network Lottery Promo, 2021 World Promotional Draw
in USA.


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