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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: "Alejandro Mayorkas" <lathuiledati@yeur.net>
Reply-To: banns_wright@aol.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:29:06 +0100
Subject: Attention please




Attention please

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 FBI.

We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of
African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and
Senegal with cote d'ivoire and they are all in Government custody now,
they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some funds
from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds
recovered to be shared among the 10 Lucky people listed around the World
as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you because your email
address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk
while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore
being compensated with sum of $9.700,000.00 US Dollars valid into an (ATM
Card Number 506119102227445160).

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive
a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you
through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with the Pin
Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $5,000 on each withdrawal
from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the funds are
exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you via
courier Service, depending your choice.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact
the agent in-charge (SOFIA HASSAN ) Kindly look below to find appropriate
contact information:

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding your
payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge you to
comply and receive your ATM Card funds.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to
hear from you today.

Yours in Services
MR. BANNS OWRIGHT






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