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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: "Mr. Williams Edward" <deliverymail425@gmail.com>
Reply-To: westernuno@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 20:39:02 -0700
Subject: Attn Beneficiary

--
HELLO RECIPIENT!!!
We are officially announcing to you the result of the United Nation/World
Bank Email Lottery Promotion held on may 6

th,2022
as our
International Yearly promotion award. Your name was attached to
refereance number YBsNGWB/UN/2022
Withdraw number P7013YBNGWB which consequently won in the 2nd category
prize, your email address was extracted from our electronic email
extraction
system which randomly selected Ten (10) Lucky Winners of which your email
address was among one of the lucky winner.
You have therefore been approved for a payout of a total sum $7.3 MILLION
UNITED STATE DOLLARS.
This is to inform you that a Debit Cash Card Number 7876310003001420
Valued
$7.5 Million United States Dollars has been accredited in your favor.
Please contact : Mr. Williams Edward
Email:{ westernuno@yahoo.com } With the following information to
facilitate your claim,

FULL NAME:......................... .....................
AGE:.......................... .................... ......
GENDER:....................... .................... ......
ADDRESS:...................... .................... ......
COUNTRY:...................... ...........................
OCCUPATION:................... .................... ......
PHONE NUMBER:....................... ....................
ID Copy...........

You are hereby advised to provide all the necessary information to enable US
facilitate on the immediate delivery of Your ATM MASTER CARD worth $7.3
Million united state Dollars.
THANKS.
Director ;Richard

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