419 scam: "William.T Ben" <ucustom45@gmail.com> Dear Lucky Winner

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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:

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "William.T Ben" <ucustom45@gmail.com>
Reply-To: amazo.lttery@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 13:01:06 -0800
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner

Congratulations. this is to official inform you that you have won the

prize of one million U.S Dollars from the AMAZON COMPANY CEO, Jeffrey
Preston Bezos.Sir Jeff Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur,
investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder chairman, CEO, and
president of Amazon.com, also Jeff bezos is the richest man in the
world with a net worth of $152 billion U.S Dollars the prize of
$1,000.000.00 is awarded in your name as the best customer of the year
from the AMAZON COMPANY CEO Sir Jeff Bezos, therefore you are going to
receive the one million dollar cash in your amazon account which will
be link to your bank account, what you need to do is to send me your
amazon account then by tomorrow the money will be transfer to your
account. for more information type

www.amazon.com

You are going to receive your fund one million Dollar from the Amazon

corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States, am
looking forward to receive your amazon account information then within

24 hours the total sum of 1,000.000.00 will be credited into your
account.

Best Regards
Amazon company Rep.
Seattle, Washington, United States

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