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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: "Lisa and John Robinson." <leesouth344445@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lr667856j@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:52:45 +0100
Subject: LJC/Donation-ref:K011- You have been Chosen for our COVID-19 Donation.

Greetings to you. This is a kind notification that you have been
chosen to benefit from our charity project aimed at touching lives and
helping those that we can across the world as God has blessed us.

My wife and I won the Powerball Jackpot of $528 Million Dollars on
January 15, 2016 and we have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of
$300 Million Dollars to charity. In the battle to stop the spread of
COVID-19 across the globe and the vast effect it has caused lives and
communities, an online e-mail beta test was run and your email address
was picked, to receive COVID-19 DONATION FUND of $4 Million.

This donation of $4 Million is made out to you to enable you
strengthen your personal issues and mostly to generously help us
extend hands of giving to the less privileged, orphans and charity
organizations within your locality.

Should you wish to verify, below are links to that effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5wk7KO_cI
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/01/15/tenn-couple-claims-share-powerball-jackpot/78838582/

Kindly forward your Message of Acceptance to us at: l78892r@gmail.com

Remain Blessed.

Lisa and John Robinson.

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