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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- drchristopherloewald99@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: " CHRISTOPHER. LOEWALD," <unityfbi.investigationunit1005@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drchristopherloewald99@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:02:22 +0100
Subject: Good day to you.

Attention SIR/MADAM.

Good day to you.

However, donâ€™t be surprised to receive this email from me hence i do
not know you in Person, but my spirit directs me to solicit for your
kind corporation to this deal hence i contacted you. Subsequently,
note that i got your email contacts during my search on the south
African Journal Online record list file, and decided to ask for your
corporation after going through your managerial and administrative
ideologies which really got my attention, from all indications you are
very sincere person. However, my Name is Dr. C.Loewald, working
currently with the South African Reserve Bank as Head Economic
Research fund Payment System Department, am here to contact you, and
also to ask, if I can do this deal with you.

However, I contact you to know if you can be trusted person to me, you
can see what is going on now in our country South African, this
CORONAVIRUS issue, is bringing our Economy down, and am in position to
do a deal with you if you can be good to me, just to tell you, there
is one Dormant account here, confirmed amount of fund worth R50
Million.(Fifty Million Rand ) which am in position to move the money
to any account, but I think if I move it to my own account, I believe
Board Executive Management will find out, so to avoid that, I like to
do this deal with you, I only need your banking details , and your
full names and address, copy of your ID/ Passport and your cell phone
number for easy communication for this transaction record.

So please I donâ€™t want you to betray me, once I move the fund into any
account of yours, because I really want to trust you on this deal, as
you know this fund will help me and you on this difficult time, al
soon future, and about % I will like us to share the money 50%50 so
please if you accept my offer get back to me with information needed
to enable me proceed the transfer now,and I promise you, never be
worried or think Otherwise, because am the Head Economic Research fund
Payment System Department Director. Which I have the power to wipe the
transaction out of the system once I done the transfer to any bank
account provide by you, so this is risky free transaction.

I will wait to hear from you.

Please this is my privet E_mail address: drchristopherloewald99@gmail.com

Dr. Christopher. Loewald,

FROM SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK, HEAD ECONOMIC RESEARCH FUND PAYMENT
SYSTEM DEPARTMENT.

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