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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Kathleen W. Johnson" <jimovia777@gmail.com>
Reply-To: morganworldinc@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:42:03 +0800
Subject: (( CLASSIFIED ))

*Hello Friend,I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we
have never met before. My name is Morgan Greene. I am the operations
manager in FINANCIAL SECURITY GROUP, VIRGINIA USA.I hope that you will not
expose or betray this trust and confidence that I am about to repose on you
for the mutual benefit of our both families.I am writing in respect of a
foreign customer of our company who perished along with his next of kin
with Korean AirLine, flight number 801 with the whole passengers on 6th of
august 1997 and for your perusal you can view this
sitehttp://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/
<http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/> Since the demise of
this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds of US$5.3M (Five Million Three Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) which has been with our company for a very long time.On this note,
I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin since
there are no known relatives and funds are about to be moved to US treasury
as unclaimed funds after this period.In view of this I got your contact
through the internet as I was doing research on a capable person to work
with on this opportunity.I have agreed that funds will be shared between us
60%/40% and I am 100% sure of this.If you are sure of your capability to
handle this, get back to me so I can direct you because we will need to
prepare documentation fixing you as the Next of Kin to the deceased and
payment.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch
free and doesn't have any negative impact. You should not entertain any
fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund have
been finalised, this transaction will be completed within 7 working days
after we commence.Waiting for your urgent response and please kindly delete
if you are not interested.Regards,Morgan U. GreeneFINANCIAL SECURITY
GROUPVIRGINIA BEACH, VA USA*

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