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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: MF <wendyarandas@sheldonisd.com>
Reply-To: <manuelfrancofam01@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:59:32 -0700
Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION] Important NOTE.

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. DO NOT click links, provide credentials or open attachments unless you validate the sender and know the content is safe.

Hi

I'm Manuel Franco, you have a donation of $2,800,000.00 (two million
eight hundred thousand dollars). I won the $768 million Powerball
Lottery in 2019. I am donating part of it to five lucky people and ten
charities.

Your email address was randomly selected from the universal email database. if
You are interested, urgently contact me for any complaints about via this email reply


WATCH ME HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wd1lruaTvg

https://abcnews.go.com/US/winner-768-million-powerball-jackpot-revealed/story?id=62571392

I'm doing this to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on people. I
I do my best to put a smile on everyone's face in the world,
in every way that i can.

All the best
Manuel.

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