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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: Bismark Akharame <bismark.ohis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:37:21 +0100
Subject: USD $ 2,149,212.00

This email is from Elon Musk and team SpaceX's founder, CEO and chief
engineer; early-stage investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc .;
Founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With
an estimated net worth of around $ 245 billion. Your email was randomly
selected from the European email database and you received 130 BTC
(BITCOIN) equal to USD $ 2,149,212.00. Please take this email as a very
serious and urgent response to claim your fund USD $ 2,149,212.00. via BTC.
Kindly email your BTC account wallet to the Claims Department to receive
your fund via BTC transfer. In case you don't have a BTC wallet account to
receive this fund we can split the transfer to your bank account or any way
you want this fund to be transferred to your account, Contact this email: (
Elonmusk_echoarysgroup@outlook.com) to claim your fund.

Your whatsapp number is needed as well to enable us to send you the vita
documentation in response to your fund USD $ 2,149,212.00. claimed
successfully

Elon Musk Echoarys Group
Elonmusk_echoarysgroup@outlook.com
c / o Tesla Motors
3500 Deer Creek
Palo Alto, CA 94304

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