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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: "Rev. CharlesAbas" <rev.charlesabas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:06:16 -1200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY

YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
arabtrans@arabtrans.com

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $800.000!


Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get
cash prizes from us.
We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Eight
Hundred Thousand Us Dollar ($800,000) for the first quarter, in
respect of the New Year
lottery winning promotion which is organized by Yahoo Messenger.com every Year.

YAHOO, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on yahoo
messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we
only select five people every month as our winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating
you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected
through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand
E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further
more your details (e-mail address) falls within our British
representative office in the United State of America, as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of US$800,000.00 will be released to
you from this regional branch office in USA / ?Birmingham, Alabama
Branch.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year high stakes international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers.......................

Batch number.....................Ab/673-740/01
Ref. number.......................56/73-99/76A
Winning number...................15806

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Bank of America Judiciary
Agent Name : Mr Marquis Girad Craig, Phone : (973) 709-5195 ( from
Monday to Friday ) email address (marquisgiradcraig086@gmail.com) You
are required to forward him with the following details:


1.FULL NAME : .......................................................................

2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN :
...........................................................

3.PRESENT ADDRESS.:
................................................................

4.BIRTH OF BIRTH / AGE.
:........................................................

5.OCCUPATION : ......................................................................

6.TELEPHONE NUMBER :
.............................................................

6.FAX NUMBER ( IF ANY ) :
.................................................................

7.MARITAL STATUS :
....................................................................

8.SEX : ..............................................................

9.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER: .............

As soon as you contact the Attorney, he will advise you on what to do
in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programmed by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,

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