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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: Kristalina Georgiever <ayellamorishokot@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kristalinag275@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:53:40 -0600
Subject: GREETINGS TO YOU

This is to inform you that, We have been working towards the
eradication of fraudsters and scam
Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity
(OAU) United Nations (UN),
European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and FBI.
We have been able to
track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of African
countries which includes
(Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal) and they are
all in Government
custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC)
Hague (Netherlands) soon for
Criminal/Fraud Justice.
During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover
so much money from these
scam artists. The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared
among 100 Lucky
people around the World for compensation. This Email/Letter is been
directed to you because
your email address was found in one of the Scam Artists file and
computer hard-disk during our
investigation, maybe you have been scammed or not, you are therefore
being compensated with
the sum of $8.5m USD(eight million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars).
We have also arrested some of those who claim that they are
barristers, bank officials,
Lottery Agents who has been sending you SMS on your phone that you
have won a lottery
which does not exist. Since your email address appeared among the
lucky beneficiaries
who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment
to be delivered to your
home address.

SO PLEASE GET BACK WITH THE BELOW INFORMATION TO AVOID A MISTAKE
DURING THE DELIVERY.......
*FULL NAMES*
*HOME ADDRESS*
*PHONE NUMBER*

THANK YOU

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