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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: "Mrs. MacKenzie Scott Tuttle" <moneygramooffice75@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mackenziescotttuttle85@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 04:37:42 -0800
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner,

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Hi,

My name is Mrs. MacKenzie Scott Tuttle, I am an American novelist and
philanthropist, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
waterhole became the founder and CEO of Amazon base in Western Africa
Regional States.

I believe strongly in “giving while living in this earth”. My
philosophy about life is that you should use your wealth to help poor
people and I have decided to secretly given out $9,500,000.00 Million
USD to randomly selected individuals worldwide based on the ongoing
dangerous pandemic (COVID-19) Crisis worried all countries in the
world, On receipt of this E-mail Promo play recently, you should
count yourself as the lucky individual who benefited on these. Your
email address was chosen online while searching at random with
Microsoft 365 Groups. Kindly get back to me at your earliest
convenience, so i know your email address is valid, As I receive
return message each time contacting you for notification.

NOTE: Visit the web page to know more about my personality as so many
lottery scam goes in internet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Bezos

These are your winning notification number you shuold use for the
claim from paymaster bank officer as stated below:

Your Ref Number: Nawaprom US/Africa-11/9765
Your Batch Number: covid19/promo/4445/samsung-009
Your Ticket Number: 908796554100
Your Serial Number: 000016

Kindly send your contact details, Phone/Full Name/Address/Any
ID/Age/Occup, to E-mail: (mackenziescotttuttle85@gmail.com) for more
information on how you will claim the fund from deposited bank.

Congratulation once more!!!!!

Regards,
Mrs. MacKenzie Scott Tuttle
( Orphanage for Poor People)
Email: mackenziescotttuttle85@gmail.com
Phone: +2349124665336

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