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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: "Moe Sadrudin" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <moesadrudin2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:24:11 -0000
Subject: Attention Sir

Dear Sir,
 
My name is Moe Sadrudin Chairman CEO Universal Humanitarian foundation
Organization, a none profitable charity organization in the United States.
Our foundation would like to partner with your organization in handling and
supervising some of our major projects in Africa, Asia and the US.
 
Some of our project you will be supervising for our foundation are building
Public Schools, Water & Health Care Facilities Project and many more around
the globe as recommended by the UN international humanitarian foundation that
your organization is trusted for the job.
 
We would forward to you all our proposal and feasibility study immediately we
hear from you, kindly send to us all your contact details to enable us get back
to you immediately and to enable us commence with the project.
 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Moe Sadrudin
Chairman UHF
 

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