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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 Frances Connolly <zinawangsales@gmail.com>
Reply-To: catharina.myers007@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 02:58:09 -0800
Subject: Donation

--
Good Day



I, Mr Patrick and Mrs Frances Connolly, won £114.9 MILLION (
£114,900,000.00 ) on the 1st day of January 2019 from the National
Lottery Jackpot. My husband and I have done lots of Charity Donations
around the world, but this year 2022 we have decided to give out
£1,000,000.00 (1,000 000.00 Pounds) each to 10 (ten) lucky people
around the world.



This is to mark New Year Windfall 2022, lucky for you; your email
address was given to us by Random Internet Search as one of our lucky
recipients. For the verification process download this link and read
about us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWX6vlLMZg



Kindly contact our pay out office in the Republic of South Africa,
with your below personal details and be rest assured that they are
waiting to hear from you, to enable them to guide you with the
releasing process immediately you receive this email.



Full Names:

Full Address:

Nationality:

Profession:

Date of Birth:

Country of resident:

Telephone Number:

Mobile Number:

Fax Number:



Contact them at the South Africa New Year Windfall office with their
contact details below for easy collection of your £1,000,000.00



Full Names: Mrs. Catharina Myers

Position Held: Pay-out Manager

Email Address :{ catharina.myers007@gmail.com }



Finally, do use the above information to contact them and please for
GOD sake if you do not feel comfortable about this New Year Windfall
from Mr Patrick and Mrs Frances Connolly, delete it immediately, as
our motto in this world since GOD blessed us in this manner is to help
eradicate poverty in this world in our own little way.


Thank you so much for being part of our wonderful celebration in 2022.


Mr Patrick and Mrs Frances Connolly.

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