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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: "Via Recognition Award:" <ee7358936@gmail.com>
Reply-To: elizabethedw0@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 04:50:17 -0800
Subject: You Won Us$2,800,000.00 Via Foundation Recognition's Award.

Hello!,

A notification for the owner of this email address, we are glad to
announce to you that a sum of US$2,800,000.00 was generated and
awarded to you by the Qatar Rowad Awards and United Arab Emirates,
West commission and the Western Union Foundation under (CBI) and
Superintendence of Industry and Commerce foundation. Achievements and
results of this are to assist financial problems and charity in the
nation.

This award was selected through the internet, where your e-mail
address was indicated and notified. The award foundation collects all
the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the
billions of people that are active online, only four people are
selected to benefit from this Award and you are one of the Selected
Winners.

To facilitate your claims, get back to us, with your processing code
(22EX1) number for every correspondence and more details of the claim.
Through my private Email: (elizabethedw0@gmail.com) for fast response.
But if you are not interested, delete it from your mailbox.

Yours Faithfully,
Awards Coordinator United Arab Emirate Commission
De-facto Chief Award Officer
United Emirate Award Committee.

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