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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Bernard Arnault" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <arnaultm59@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 15:45:23 -0700
Subject: [*SPAM*] CASH SUM OF $1,970,000 DONATION GIFT FOR YOU

I hope this information reaches to you well as I know you will be curious to know why and how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $1,970,000 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate, I Mr.Bernard Jean Arnault 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.
I decided to donate the sum of $1,970,000 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all over the world from our $7.3 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.

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 ($1,970,000 USD,) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send us



Your full names

Your contact address

Your personal telephone number

your Occupation



So that I can forward your payment information to you immediately. 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.Bernard
contact: arnaultmrbernardjean@gmail.com

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